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Management practices and the quality of primary care

Angelis, Jannis; Glenngård, Anna H.; Jordahl, Henrik - 2017

Using the World Management Survey method, we map and analyse management quality in Swedish primary care centres. On average, private providers have higher management quality than public ones. We also find that centres with a high overall social deprivation among enrolled patients tend to have...

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Hospital performance and ownership type : a re-assessment of the evidence

Hansen, Robert G.; Sundaram, Anant K. - 2018

Prior empirical research on US hospitals mostly concludes that ownership type – not-for-profit (NFP) versus for … behavior. We revisit the issue with a comprehensive dataset covering the sixteen-year period 2000-2015, and find that ownership … measures and patient satisfaction scores are, however, somewhat higher for NFPs. Consistent with theory, ownership type creates …

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Choice and competition in the welfare state : home care as the ideal quasi-market

Bergman, Mats A.; Jordahl, Henrik; Lundberg, Sofia - 2018

We study a reform by which a standardized model of choice and competition was introduced in tax-financed home care in a majority of Swedish municipalities. The market for home care is of particular interest since it is close to the ideal quasi-market. For identification, we exploit the different...

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Hospital ownership type and service provision, a structural approach

Bayindir, Esra Eren - 2019

service provision relative to the value they assign to profits by hospital ownership, (for-profit, not-for-profit or … government owned) in a structural way and present evidence that valuations differ significantly by ownership type. Despite the …

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Public-sector outsourcing

Poutvaara, Panu - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10

Outsourcing public provision of services tends to lower labor intensity and increase its efficiency. Costs are usually lower, but quality problems can affect services like health care and residential youth care. Consumer choice has stimulated innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous...

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Do hospitals cross-subsidize?

David, Guy; Lindrooth, Richard C.; Helmchen, Lorens A.; … - In: Journal of Health Economics 37 (2014) C, pp. 198-218

Despite its salience as a regulatory tool to ensure the delivery of unprofitable medical services, cross-subsidization of services within hospital systems has been notoriously difficult to detect and quantify. We use repeated shocks to a profitable service in the market for hospital-based...

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Changes in Hospital Efficiency after Privatization

Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - Institut für Management im Gesundheitswesen und …

We investigated the effects of privatization on hospital efficiency in Germany. To do so, we obtained bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores in the first stage of our analysis and subsequently employed a difference-in-difference matching approach within a panel regression framework. Our findings...

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Reimbursement and Investment: Propsective Payment and For-Profit Hospitals' Market Share

Lee, Seungchul; Rosenman, Robert - School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University - 2012

This paper studies how the change from retrospective cost-based reimbursement to a prospective payment system shifted hospital investment strategies from quality-enhancing technologies to cost-saving technologies. A consequence of this change was the opportunity for for-profit hospitals to...

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Cost and Technical Efficiency of German Hospitals : Does Ownership Matter?

Herr, Annika - 2010

hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure, and …

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Does Higher Cost Inefficiency Imply Higher Profit Inefficiency? Evidence on Inefficiency and Ownership of German Hospitals

Herr, Annika; Schmitz, Hendrik; Augurzky, Boris - 2009

how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure,and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor …

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