by horizontal hospital mergers as an instrument, we show that rising prices raise the cost of labor by increasing …

its resource allocation at hospital level and its tariff calculation at national level. First, the paper reviews and … assesses the three steps in the G-DRG resource allocation scheme at hospital level: (1) the groundwork; (2) cost … calculation: (1) plausibility checks; (2) inlier calculation; and (3) the “one hospital” approach. The assessment is based on the …