Heimeshoff, Mareike; Schreyögg, Jonas; Kwietniewski, Lukas - In: Health Care Management Science 17 (2014) 2, pp. 150-161
This is the first study to use stochastic frontier analysis to estimate both the technical and cost efficiency of physician practices. The analysis is based on panel data from 3,126 physician practices for the years 2006 through 2008. We specified the technical and cost frontiers as translog...
