This is the first study to specify a physician practice cost function with practice costs as the unit of analysis. Our study is based on the data of 3,706 physician practices for the years 2006 to 2008. We propose a model using physician practices as the unit of observation and considering the...

In the past decades, hospitals have been facing pressure to increase the efficiency of resource allocation. One way to achieve higher levels of technical efficiency is to treat more patients with the same amount of personnel, which could potentially lead to a trade-off between improving...

Am 2. Juli 2018 hat der Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der Entwicklung im Gesundheitswesen sein aktuelles Gutachten 'Bedarfsgerechte Steuerung der Gesundheitsversorgung' an das Bundesgesundheitsministerium übergeben. Die ausgeprägte Trennung von ambulanter und stationärer Versorgung,...

The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profithospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiencyof a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit...

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...