A common reform used to increase consumer choice and competition in public services has been to allow private providers … privately owned hospitals to enter the market. We show that, post-reform, poor and ethnic minority patients were much less … suggest differences in health explain 18% of the difference in the use of private providers between rich and poor patients …

The premium rates paid for statutory health insurance in Germany play a key role in the competition among health care …

This paper considers the micro-econometric analysis of patients' hospital choice for elective medical procedures when … assessing hospital quality and focus on tangible attributes, like hospital amenities; and that GPs, in turn, as patients' agents … inconsistencies that arise when strategic pre-selection is not properly taken into account. We fi nd that patients defer to GPs when …

Competing hospitals may not only use quality of service to attract patients but also their specialization profile … and (ii) preference for a good match between patients' needs and hospitals' specialization profile. Moreover, we derive …Im Wettbewerb stehende Krankenhäuser könnten nicht nur Qualität, sondern auch ihr Spezialisierungsprofil nutzen, um …

variation in the scope for competition. Using rich administrative data covering the universe of NHS hospital admissions from …We study the impact of exposing hospitals in a National Health Service (NHS) to non-price competition by exploiting a … length of stay than hospitals in less competitive areas. These results indicate that competition improves patient health …

effects of competition for active patients as well as the negative effects of competition for passive patients become more … pronounced. Our results imply that competition can not only improve but also worsen patient outcome and that patients …We study how competition between physicians affects the provision of medical care. In our theoretical model physicians …

hospital-associated physicians with paid malpractice claims and disciplinary sanctions. These findings raise questions about …

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital … of the discouraging effect of travel distance. We provide evidence that patients are responsive to changes in waiting ….17 and - 1.38, respectively. Patients' personal characteristics significantly influence how they trade off distance and …

times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the …This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting …