Health care providers may vertically integrate not only to facilitate coordination of care, but also for strategic reasons that may not be in patients' best interests. Optimal Medicare reimbursement policy depends upon the extent to which each of these explanations is correct. To investigate, we...

The writer considers the extent to which the EC Treaty applies to the provision of medical services, and refers inter alia to case law of the Court of Justice which holds that hospital services provided within the framework of national social security schemes fall within the freedom to provide...

Using commercial claims for 2012-2013 from Colorado's All-Payer Claims Database, we examine how medical service prices vary for five hospital-based procedures and the complexity adjusted inpatient price. We find that prices vary substantially in multiple dimensions. Our analysis indicates that...