We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i …. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer budgets … increase quality since parts of the expenditures may be covered by the payer. However, softer budgets reduce cost …

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i …. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer budgets … increase quality since parts of the expenditures may be covered by the payer. However, softer budgets reduce cost …

performance, productivity, waiting times and clinical quality and find little evidence that mergers achieved gains other than a …

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i …. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer budgets … increase quality since parts of the expenditures may be covered by the payer. However, softer budgets reduce cost …

performance, productivity, waiting times and clinical quality and find little evidence that mergers achieved gains other than a …

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i …. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer budgets … increase quality since parts of the expenditures may be covered by the payer. However, softer budgets reduce cost …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … between hospitals. Patients were given choice of location for hospital care and provided information on the quality and …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … between hospitals. Patients were given choice of location for hospital care and provided information on the quality and …

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effoort when their budgets are soft … state. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer … budgets increase quality since parts of the expenditures may be covered by the payer. However, softer budgets reduce cost …

performance, productivity, waiting times and clinical quality and find little evidence that mergers achieved gains other than a …