spending is distributed across the population. This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to … examine key features of public hospital spending in England. We describe how costs vary across the lifecycle, and the … after age 70. Spending is highly concentrated in a small section of the population: with 32% of all hospital spending …

varies depending on hospital size and type (hospital specialization), the advantage being more relevant for general hospitals …-profit private hospitals the production of healthcare services to specific patients that are publicly insured is a traditional … practice. Around 43% of the for-profit private hospitals in Spain have a commissioning agreement with the NHS to diagnose or …

different financing mechanisms on hospital’s performance. To this purpose, we carry out a two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis … (DEA), where in the first-stage we estimate the DEA efficiency scores for all Italian hospitals and, then, in the second …. The results show a significant impact of the use of DRG-based PPS on hospital efficiency level. In particular, we find …

consumption and hospital discharge records for the full population aged 58 to 65 in January 2004 covered by the public insurer in …