Permanente, Intermountain Health Care and The Mayo Clinics. However, due to large cost variability amongst patients (economic … of reducing provider risk than to increase the number of patients. Our simulations illustrate that introducing an … individual yearly cost ceiling of 20 000 US-dollars per patient reduces risk as much as increasing the number of patients from 5 …

envelopment analysis (DEA) on existing inpatient data from the Neurorehabilitation Center at Toronto’s Bridgepoint Hospital to … discharge assessments provided by the Bridgepoint Hospital. …

Increasing costs of treatments have led to the apparition of the medical tourism. Patients in high-income countries …%. Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of death worldwide. The high cost of treating these diseases cause many patients to seek …

one mile closer to a hospital is positive if the hospital is a designated public hospital, lower for private hospitals and … significantly more and, for higher concentrations, exhibit a positive willingness to pay for all hospital types. This is likely due …