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GPs and hospital expenditures : should we keep expenditure containment programs alive?

Fiorentini, Gianluca; Lippi Bruni, Matteo; Ugolini, Cristina - 2012

care that were aimed at containing hospital expenditure in the Italian region of Emilia Romagna during the period 2002 … public payments made to GPs), together with information on the utilisation of hospital services. We employ a difference …-in-difference specification to assess changes in expenditures for avoidable and total hospital admissions. We identify the treatment group with …

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Can amputation save the hospital? : the impact of the Medicare Rural Flexibility Program on demand and welfare ; conference paper

Gowrisankaran, Gautam; Lucarelli, Claudio; … - 2013

This paper seeks to understand the impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexi- bility (Flex) Program on rural resident … hospital choice and welfare. The Flex program created a new class of hospital, the Critical Access Hospital (CAH), which …

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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on profitability indicators in the hospitality sector

Vojtekova, Simona; Kliestik, Tomas - In: Management dynamics in the knowledge economy 12 (2024) 1/43, pp. 39-53

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Average-cost pricing and dynamic selection incentives in the hospital sector

Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - 2014

This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a prospective payment system of the DRG type. Given that prices typically reflect past average costs, we use a discrete-time dynamic framework. Patients differ in severity...

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Price Changes in Regulated Healthcare Markets : Do Public Hospitals Respond and How?

Verzulli, Rossella - 2015

This paper examines the behaviour of public hospitals in response to the average payment incentives created by price changes for patients classified in different Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). Using panel data on public hospitals located within the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, we test...

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Addressing private practice in public hospitals

Guo, Xidong; Parlane, Sarah - 2020

This paper proposes a theoretical analysis of the private provision of care within public hospitals and assesses its impact on the quality and cost of healthcare. We also capture this policy's impact on the number of outpatients that are seen and the number that are cured. We show that the...

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Public Hospitals : Their Efficiency and Funding Policy in Victoria

Mangano, Maria - 2014

This paper examines the impact of the introduction of casemix funding (together with budget cuts) to public hospitals in Victoria over the period 1992/93 to 1995/96. One of the aims of introducing casemix funding at the time was to increase efficiency, which is defined as reducing the amount of...

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The Effect of Performance Pay Incentives on Market Frictions : Evidence from Medicare

Gupta, Atul; David, Guy; Kim, Kunhee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

empirical evidence by using novel operations and claims data from a large, independent home health care firm with the Hospital …

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Average-cost pricing and dynamic selection incentives in the hospital sector

Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - 2014

This study investigates hospitals' dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a prospective payment system of the DRG type. Given that prices typically reflect past average costs, we use a discrete-time dynamic framework. Patients differ in severity within...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418156

Much ado about nothing? : the financial impact of physician-owned specialty hospitals

Chakravarty, Sujoy - In: International journal of health economics and management 16 (2016) 2, pp. 103-131

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