In the last decades, many European hospital markets witnessed a wave of mergers leading to increased levels of market … concentration. The effects of hospital mergers and the effectiveness of competition enforcement have been discussed by politicians … but understudied by academics. This report studies how hospital mergers impact hospital service provision by focusing on …

The recent rise of specialty hospitals -- typically for-profit firms that are at least partially owned by physicians … population. We find support for both sides of this debate. Markets experiencing entry by a cardiac specialty hospital have lower … spending for cardiac care without significantly worse clinical outcomes. In markets with a specialty hospital, however …

health and wellbeing. This article makes the moral, legal, and policy-based argument that hospital lawsuits against former …

Nowadays different healthcare policies in OECD countries seem to consider hospital readmission somehow “quality …

decompose the joint contribution of quality and unobserved productivity to hospital costs, relying on heterogeneous tastes among … the 75th percentile would increase costs at the average hospital by nearly fifty percent. Improvements in traditional … metrics of hospital quality such as risk-adjusted mortality are more modest, indicating that other factors such as amenities …