part of the financial bargaining between the two parties. Methods We use 2014-2020 hospital level data from the American … Hospital Association's annual survey and county- level MA penetration rates. We estimate the correlation between MA penetration … rates and Medicare and non-Medi- care inpatient days using multivariate regressions with hospital and year fixed effects. We …

-level data. Profitability was assessed through hospital-level net financial results excluding deficit-covering payments. All … cases were assigned uniquely to a medically homogeneous service group or area, as determined by Swiss hospital capacity … 2015 to 2022, overall hospital profitability margins declined continuously, with public hospitals consistently reporting …

Patient selection remains a major challenge in evaluating hospital performance. We exploit the quasi-random assignment … instrumental variable (IV) framework, we use high-quality administrative data and estimate hospital performance on patient outcomes … patient observables. We find that the assessment of hospital performance is sensitive to the inclusion of patient observables …

Background China started a pilot public hospital reform in 2012 to improve governance and efficiency in healthcare … services delivery among county-level hospitals. This study aims to investigate the impact of the pilot reform on hospital …-stage approach is used. First, this study uses the output-oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate hospital efficiency …

We investigate the factors that influence the variance in hospital charges and inpatient care for kidney transplant … cases in the US. Using the AHRQ's (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) HCUP's (Hospital Cost and Utilization Project …) NIS (National Inpatient Sample) database, we find that variance in hospital charges and inpatient care is driven by …