expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice. Employing a difference-in-difference framework, we find that patients who … shift their utilization more strongly towards other providers. Our results have potential implications for health policy in … at least two dimensions: practice closures may lead to an inefficient use of healthcare services and deteriorate access …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on …

elective surgery responds following the entry of private providers into the market for publicly funded health care in England … private hospitals. These results are robust to instrumenting for location using the presence of existing healthcare facilities …

This paper analyzes the impact of service quality on patients' satisfaction with the Portuguese National Health Service … hospitals to total number of children delivered, in 2000-2016. We assume that families choose private health institutions if … they are not satisfied with the National Health Service. Previous literature relies on questionnaires and surveys about …

We analyse – theoretically and empirically – the effect of hospital mergers on waiting times in healthcare markets …

likely to choose private hospitals; and that dominant drivers of sorting between public and private providers are health … suggest differences in health explain 18% of the difference in the use of private providers between rich and poor patients … market frictions, limited variation in payments made to hospitals according to patient health means that sorting is estimated …

laggard in terms of those health outcomes that can be attributed to the healthcare system. In international comparisons of … because, like virtually all health systems in the developed world, it is financed on a pay-as-you-go basis: healthcare costs …Despite some relative improvements in the last fifteen years, the National Health Service remains an international …

Increasing the overall share of health services provided directly to the home constitutes a significant—and as yet … mostly unrealized—opportunity to improve healthcare in the United States. Home healthcare as I define it in this paper … includes four service models: (1) medical house calls or home-based primary care, (2) health agency care or peer-to-peer health …