hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals faced a unique predicament. Hospital care was urgently needed and society took … efforts to prevent overwhelming hospitals. However, hospitals in case-based reimbursement schemes faced financial problems …, emergency financing measures were implemented in many countries. We analyze how hospitals in Germany responded to a scheme that …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment …

between hospitals. Patients were given choice of location for hospital care and provided information on the quality and … approximately 68,000 discharges per year per hospital from 160 hospitals. We find that the effect of competition is to save lives … without raising costs. Patients discharged from hospitals located in markets where competition was more feasible were less …

costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number of hospitals. With semi-altruistic providers and a fairly general cost …

Prospective payment systems are currently used in many OECD countries, where hospitals are paid a fixed price for each … patient treated. We develop a theoretical model to analyse the properties of the optimal fixed prices to be paid to hospitals … decreasing and the cost function is the (commonly used) power function, the optimal price adjustment for hospitals with higher …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment …