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Cost and Technical Efficiency of German Hospitals – A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Frohloff, Annika - 2007
Using a newly available and multifaceted dataset provided by the German Federal Statistical Office, this paper is the first to investigate both technical and cost efficiency of more than 1500 German general hospitals conducting a stochastic frontier analysis. The empirical results for the years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264677
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Does Higher Cost Inefficiency Imply Higher Profit Inefficiency? - Evidence on Inefficiency and Ownership of German Hospitals
Herr, Annika; Schmitz, Hendrik; Augurzky, Boris - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558456
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Does higher cost inefficiency imply higher profit inefficiency? : evidence on inefficiency and ownership of German hospitals
Herr, Annika; Schmitz, Hendrik; Augurzky, Boris - 2009
how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure,and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor … hospitals. -- Hospital efficiency ; ownership ; stochastic frontier analysis ; profit function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877661
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Cost and Technical Efficiency of German Hospitals : Does Ownership Matter?
Herr, Annika - 2010
hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198262
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Does Higher Cost Inefficiency Imply Higher Profit Inefficiency? Evidence on Inefficiency and Ownership of German Hospitals
Herr, Annika; Schmitz, Hendrik; Augurzky, Boris - 2009
how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure,and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202098
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Cost and Technical Efficiency of German Hospitals – A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Frohloff, Annika - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2007
Using a newly available and multifaceted dataset provided by the German Federal Statistical Office, this paper is the first to investigate both technical and cost efficiency of more than 1500 German general hospitals conducting a stochastic frontier analysis. The empirical results for the years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561990
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Explaining differentials in subsidy levels among hospital ownership types in Germany
Pilny, Adam - 2014
Krankenhäuser in Deutschland erhalten gemäß dem Krankenhausfinanzierungsgesetz (KHG) Investitionsfördermittel von den …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437525
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Hospital performance and ownership type : a re-assessment of the evidence
Hansen, Robert G.; Sundaram, Anant K. - 2018
Prior empirical research on US hospitals mostly concludes that ownership type – not-for-profit (NFP) versus for … behavior. We revisit the issue with a comprehensive dataset covering the sixteen-year period 2000-2015, and find that ownership … measures and patient satisfaction scores are, however, somewhat higher for NFPs. Consistent with theory, ownership type creates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925653
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Explaining Differentials in Subsidy Levels Among Hospital Ownership Types in Germany
Pilny, Adam - 2015
German hospitals receive subsidies for investment costs by federal states. Theoretically, these subsidies have to cover the whole investment volume, but in fact only 50%-60% are covered. Balance sheet data show that public hospitals exhibit higher levels of subsidies compared to for-profit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014138010
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Introducing activity-based payment in the hospital industry : evidence from French data
Choné, Philippe; Evain, Franck; Wilner, Lionel; … - 2013
Many countries have reformed hospital reimbursement policies to provide stronger incentives for quality and cost reduction. The purpose of this work is to understand how the effect of such reforms depends on the intensity of local competition. We build a nonprice competition model to examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765047