The recent final rule on Medicaid managed care establishes the minimum medical loss ratio (MLR) requirement for Medicaid managed care and contains several provisions to strengthen delivery and payment reforms and improve efficiency and quality of care. Accordingly, this research examines the...

There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital efficiency in a subset of OECD countries, based on three...

Abstract: Regelmäßig wird behauptet, in Deutschland gäbe es zu viele Ärzte, insbesondere zu viele niedergelassene Fachärzte. Namentlich die „doppelte Facharztschiene“ in Klinik und Praxis sei ein wichtiger Grund für Ressourcenverschwendung und Unwirtschaftlichkeit des deutschen...