efficiency in Ugandan referral hospitals was measured and analysed. The audit report pointed out that there was a relatively low …. Originality / value of the article:Even though there are a substantial amount of research on efficiency in African hospitals, no … was input congestion. Implication of the reserachWe recommend that inefficient hospitals should use efficient hospitals as …

This study examines the relative technical efficiency of 12 hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia. Using six-year-round panel …, and determinants of the technical inefficiency of hospitals. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and DEA- based Malmquist … hospitals. Tobit model used to examine the determinants of the technical inefficiency of hospitals. The DEA Variable Returns to …

This study examines the relative technical efficiency of 12 hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia. Using six-year-round panel …, and determinants of the technical inefficiency of hospitals. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and DEA- based Malmquist … hospitals. Tobit model used to examine the determinants of the technical inefficiency of hospitals. The DEA Variable Returns to …

We estimate a bargaining model of competition between hospitals and managed care organizations (MCOs) and use the … hospitals. We show that increasing patient coinsurance tenfold would reduce prices by 16%. We find that a proposed hospital …

Findings suggest that many hospitals' negotiating leverage significantly increased after years of decline. Today, many … hospitals are viewed as having the greatest leverage in local markets. Changes in three areas—the policy and purchasing … context, managed care plan market, and hospital market—appear to explain why hospitals' leverage increased, particularly …

In the late 1980s, the Prospective Payment System and the expansion of managed care plans forced hospitals to be cost … scale economies among merged and control hospitals prior to the merger, and one year and two years after the merger, using …

This paper states that traditional facilities (i.e., hospitals, remote physician offices or referral care) may not be …