This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI...

In this paper we investigate the existence of a two-tier medical system in the German acute care hospital sector using data from a survey of 483 German hospitals. The focus of our analysis lies on the impact of hospital concentration on the probability of discrimination of patients with...

Mit dem vorliegenden fünften Band der Reihe "DIBOGS-Beiträge zur Gesundheitsökonomie und Sozialpolitik" werden nun wieder ausgewählte Workshopbeiträge einer breiten Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt. Der Schwerpunkt dieses Bandes liegt auf der Analyse von Marktstrukturen und Marktverhalten in den...