This paper examines the impacts of private hospital entry on publicly funded elective care in England. From 2006 … differentially exposed to private hospital entry, instrumenting hospital entry with the location of private hospitals in the pre …-reform period. We find private hospital entry led to a 12% increase in the overall number of annual publicly funded admissions, and …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …

, nonprofit hospitals maintained on average more than three times as many beds per hospital as their for-profit counterparts …; following a monotonic decline in relative size, by 2000, the average nonprofit hospital was only 32% larger than the typical for …-profit hospital. Hospital level data for the United States indicate that the convergence was driven primarily by industry-wide effects …

Medicare spending in 2014. We use the entry of LTCHs into local hospital markets and an event study design to estimate LTCHs …

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 utilization 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 …

scheme. Part III analyzes the current hospital pricing scheme in light of its effects on the uninsured. Part IV examines the …

Medicare reimbursement rate changes on the level and mix of hospital services provided. I find that hospitals respond to higher … categories leads to a large increase in hospital revenue. Hospitals deploy the revenue, almost exclusively, in expenses for …

Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit …

Many countries have reformed hospital reimbursement policies to provide stronger incentives for quality and cost …