by 15.9% and hospital costs by 4.7%. Our estimation results show that the effects on charge prices do not last as long as … negotiated prices, while low-price hospitals increase charges; (2) hospital characteristics such as ownership, case mix, and … payer mix; and (3) hospital size and market competition. We also conduct counterfactuals to predict price changes of non …

estimates to evaluate the effects of hospital mergers. We find that MCO bargaining restrains hospital prices significantly. The … hospitals. We show that increasing patient coinsurance tenfold would reduce prices by 16%. We find that a proposed hospital … acquisition in Northern Virginia that was challenged by the Federal Trade Commission would have significantly raised hospital …

marktverschließenden Wirkungen der dualistischen Krankenhausfinanzierung, gehen auf die besondere Problematik von Krankenhäusern in der …The increasing number of hospital mergers over the last few years has lead to some debate over the form and degree of … paper analyses regionalism and hospital competition, highlighting several aspects: We shed light on the market …

differential merger outcomes are caused mostly by firms' technology or product market attributes. Furthermore, empirical merger …. We allow the merger responses to vary across firms, even after controlling for regressors, and apply a random …' postmerger output further increases (and postmerger price further declines) if merging firms are more efficient, operate in more …