provide incentives for hospitals to reduce costs or improve quality. Instead, it makes publicly available hospital quality … hospitals will be motivated to improve quality but not decrease costs. We study hospital costs and quality for the period … spanning 2003 to 2009. To assess the impact of the Reform on costs and quality, we compare the change in Massachusetts hospital …

competition and other forms of financial pressures undermine hospitals' ability to cross-subsidize and so challenges their …

This paper examines the impact of managed care on the local hospital market structure. During the 1990s, managed care … increased its presence rapidly in the healthcare market, and local hospital markets became more concentrated through closures … the literature that the hospital market concentration and managed care market penetration have little correlation …

whether patients discharged to hospital-based SNFs have better outcomes. In unadjusted comparisons, hospital-based SNF … solved the problem of differential selection into hospital-based and freestanding SNFs by using differential distance from … home to the nearest hospital with a SNF relative to the distance from home to the nearest hospital without a SNF as an …

Gesundheitswesen -- 10 Das öffentliche/kommunale Krankenhaus – künftige Rolle in der Gesundheitsversorgung -- 11 Die Zukunft der … Harkness Fellow des Commonwealth Fund bei Kaiser Permanente in Kalifornien und in Washington D.C. beim Urban Institute, um sich … Krankenhaussektor. Als Klinikgeschäftsführer der Hospital Management Group ist er seit 2020 als Interimsmanager für Bergman Clinics …

the provision of charity care. We examine this issue using data on all hospital discharges in California between 1988 and …'s charity caseload. However, these public hospitals also take on larger shares of most other types of patients. At the hospital …