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Life, Death, and Medicare Fraud : The Corruption of Hospice and What the Private Public Partnership Under the Federal False Claims Act is Doing About It

Barger, James - 2016

Once a humble, beloved, charity-based arm of the healthcare industry, hospice is now a multi-billion dollar industry, funded almost exclusively by Medicare, run by for-profit corporations answering to private equity investors and Wall Street, and more and more frequently plagued by fraud and...

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Is a Flat-Line a Good Thing? On the Privatization of Israel's Healthcare System

Seidman, Guy I. - 2010

Israel presents an intriguing conundrum: on the one hand, it provides quality healthcare in a near-universal healthcare system; on the other, it has maintained healthcare costs level at approximately 7.7% of GDP. This comes at a time when all western nations struggle with one or both sides of...

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Public Choice and Private Insurance : The Case of Small Group Market Reforms

Hall, Mark A. - 1998

This article is one of nine appearing in a forthcoming symposium focused on Richard Epstein's book "Mortal Peril." This article begins by questioning the legitimacy of the conclusions Epstein reaches about the proper role of government with respect to health care financing, observing that...

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Types of private financing of medical care by patients in Poland

Paszkowska, Małgorzata - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 3, pp. 59-74

The share of privately paid medical care is steadily increasing. Polish patients pay immediately for single services and may also privately conclude the contracts for medical insurance or subscription (steady access to complex private medical care). The aim of this paper is to draw the reader's...

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The Impact of Privatization : Evidence from the Hospital Sector

Duggan, Mark G.; Gupta, Atul; Jackson, Emilie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Privatization has been shown to increase growth and profitability of public firms. However, effects on consumers are understudied. We study potential trade-offs in the US hospital sector where public control declined by 42% over 1983-2019. Private operators may improve hospitals' financial...

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Privatisation and Social Spending in the Least Developed African Economies : A Study of Ethiopia

Jesiah, Selvam - 2016

reference to Ethiopia. Many previous studies have proved that privatisation has had a direct and positive effect on social … any connectivity between privatisation and social spending. Four major overheads are selected for this study: Education …, health, road construction and social welfare. The empirical results show that the connectivity of privatisation in relation …

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Changes in hospital efficiency after privatization

Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2011

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Does competition increase economic efficiency in Swedish county councils?

Rudholm, Nikas; Nordmark, Arvid; Marklund, Per-Olov - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 77-91

The Swedish health care system is to a large extent publicly managed by 21 local county councils. During recent years there has been a movement were local county councils have opted to allow more of the production to be performed by alternative producers (i.e. private firms, cooperatives etc.)....

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Changes in hospital efficiency after privatization

Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2011

We investigated the effects of privatization on hospital efficiency in Germany. To do so, we obtained bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores in the first stage of our analysis and subsequently employed a difference-in-difference matching approach within a panel regression framework. Our findings...

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Comparison of public, non-profit and private hospitals

Held, Bärbel - 2014

The health care system in Germany is undergoing a phase of transformation. The resulting challenges and fields of action for the hospitals were described as one outcome of a scenario analysis conducted by the author. These include, for example, setting up new organisation structures,...

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