care providers (-12%) towards specialist care (+10%), and hospital outpatient facilities (+5%). The magnitude of these …

There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons … of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital … standard hospital treatments; ii) overall efficiency levels in a set of paired countries; iii) within-country dispersion in …

prices for hospitals on multiple dimensions of hospital quality, including mortality outcomes, surgical complications … and 2010 based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. We find that changes in reimbursement prices do not affect …

spending is distributed across the population. This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to … examine key features of public hospital spending in England. We describe how costs vary across the lifecycle, and the … after age 70. Spending is highly concentrated in a small section of the population: with 32% of all hospital spending …

link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy …

Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit …

We estimate the price elasticity of demand for outpatient care in Japan. We use a nationally representative microdata … for Japan are similar to U.S. estimates despite institutional differences …