This paper studies the effect of hospital ownership on treatment rates allowing for spatial correlation among hospitals …. Competition among hospitals and knowledge spillovers generate significant externalities which we try to capture using the spatial … hospital ownership on treatment rates that depends upon the market structure where the hospital is located and which varies by …

observable hospital-specific and federal state-specific characteristics or unobservable factors. …

role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held … hospitals. -- hospital performance ; innovative procedures ; stratified duration model ; hospital quality …