Recent studies examining the relationship between legislative majorities and state budgets have presented mixed results. We provide new insight on this relationship by employing stochastic frontier analysis to model the maximum potential budgets that could be feasibly produced given a set of...

Background: Increasing the productivity and efficiency of physician practices could help relieve the rapid growth of U.S. healthcare costs and the expected physician shortage. Radiology practices are an attractive specific focus for research on practices’ productivity and efficiency because...