Healthcare payment systems influence to a great extent the hospitals' investment decision and thereby, their ability to treat patients. A payment system is optimal provided it incentivises hospitals to undertake an investment level that is appropriate, when considering treatment costs, patients'...

Hospitals account for 40 % of all healthcare expenditures and play a central role in healthcare provision. Therefore, the way hospitals are payed has major implications for the care they provide. Yet the knowledge about system wide effects of payment reforms is surprisingly thin. This study...

Hospitals account for 40 % of all healthcare expenditures and play a central role in healthcare provision. Therefore, the way hospitals are payed has major implications for the care they provide. Yet the knowledge about system wide effects of payment reforms is surprisingly thin. This study...

Purpose: This study examined whether nonprofit hospitals reflect social roles as well as values and satisfy their financial responsibilities compared with for-profit hospitals. Design/methodology/approach: Using panel data from the Hospital Financial and Utilization Information Data System in...

This study aims to investigate the levels of emotional intelligence for managers in public and private hospitals in Jordan for the purpose of identifying the relative practice of emotional intelligence dimensions by managers in each sector. The research will also look into the differences (gaps)...

Excessive turnover reduces the stock of an organization's human capital. In the public sector, where wage increases are often constrained, managers need to leverage non-monetary working conditions to retain their workers. We investigate whether workers are responsive to improvements in non-wage...

Information problems in health care and the multifaceted nature of hospital quality complicate hospital choice. Online reviews provide an accessible, salient means through which researchers and health care decision-makers can gather information about a hospital's quality of care, and given their...

This research note categorizes acute care hospitals services as relatively profitable, relatively unprofitable, variably profitable, or uncertain. It updates “Research Note: Relative Profitability of Acute Hospital Services,” an online exhibit to Horwitz, “Making Profits and Providing...

Objectives: French Guiana, the least-vaccinated French territory, also has the lowest COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Latin America. We aimed to estimate how many deaths, hospitalizations and costs the vaccines had and could have avoided. Methods: We calculated the Number Needed to Vaccinate to...

A literature has found that medical providers inflate bills and report more conditions given financial incentives. We evaluate whether Medicare reimbursement incentives are driven more by bill inflation or coding costs. Medicare reformed its payment mechanism for inpatient hospitalizations in...

The hospital market is served by firms that are private for-profit, private not-for-profit, and government-owned and operated. I use a plausibly exogenous change in hospital financing that was intended to improve medical care for the poor to test three theories of organizational behavior. My...

Increasing healthcare spending and lacking of efficiency in the healthcare market have spurred government and insurers interest in hospital price and quality transparency tools. This systematic review synthesized literature examing the impact of hospital price and quality transparency tools on...

Dieser Bericht untersucht die Folgen der Covid-19-Pandemie auf die Erlöse und das Leistungsgeschehen der Krankenhäuser für den Zeitraum vom 1. Januar 2020 bis zum 30. September 2020 unter Berücksichtigung der seit dem 16. März 2020 geltenden Freihaltepauschale. Der erste Bericht vom 17....

There are opposing views in the literature regarding the degree to which China’s public administration adopted international models of administrative reform. Prospective payment systems constitute a formidable case for examining this question in the field of public hospital funding. In...

Background: In developed countries around the world there is a trend to enhance the public-private collaboration in healthcare. In Spain, a decentralized country with a NHS funded with taxes and universal coverage, commissioning to for-profit private hospitals the production of healthcare...

Medicare has increased the use of performance pay incentives for hospitals, with the goal of increasing care coordination across providers, reducing market frictions, and ultimately to improve quality of care. This paper provides new empirical evidence by using novel operations and claims data...

Using a novel set of Global Warming Potential (GWP) data for hospitals in Switzerland. We estimate the environmental efficiency by stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis for the hospitals overall and 14 specific hospital areas. We find median efficiency of hospitals of at...

Hospitals in Japan have complete autonomy in deciding whether to admit COVID-19 patients, similar to that of the US. Taking this into account, we estimated the effect of admitting COVID-19 patients on hospital profits, using instrumental variable (IV) regression. Using IVs related to government...

Grimly demonstrated by the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals serve as the central hub of American health care. Increasingly exercising market power, setting clinical standards, and fostering innovation, hospitals’ influence over health care delivery and access is unmatched. They are the behemoth in...

Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a measure that is widely used for the evaluation of public policies in medicine, the environment, and transportation safety. This paper demonstrates the widespread use of this...

Japan has one of the longest average length of stay in hospital (ALOS) among developed countries. To curb the high ALOS, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has launched a payment system reform where instead of the pre-reform fee-for-service system (FFS) a new per-diem prospective payment...

This study examines the link between credit supply and hospital health outcomes. Using detailed data on hospitals and the banks that they borrow from, we use bank stress tests as exogenous shocks to credit access for hospitals that have lending relationships with tested banks. We find that...

Performance-raising practices tend to diffuse slowly in the health care sector. To understand how incentives drive adoption, I study a practice that generates revenue for hospitals: submitting detailed documentation about patients. After a 2008 reform, hospitals could raise their Medicare...

Schon vor der Corona-Krise war die wirtschaftliche Lage der Krankenhäuser kontinuierlich schlechter geworden. Nun verschärft die gegenwärtige Pandemie-Situation die Schwierigkeiten weiter. Damit auch in Zukunft eine konsequente Orientierung am Patientenwohl gemeinsam mit einer hohen...

Die Finanzierung der allgemeinen Krankenhäuser wurde vor mehr als 15 Jahren auf DRG-Fallpauschalen umgestellt (DRG: Diagnosis Related Groups). Ab dem Jahr 2003 konnten Krankenhäuser die neuen Fallpauschalen zunächst freiwillig anwenden, ab 2004 war die Abrechnung mit Fallpauschalen...

New research from the ESRI provides projections of expenditure for public acute hospital and adult acute psychiatric in-patient services in Ireland for the years 2018-2035. These projections are based on new ESRI projections for population and economic growth, both of which consider the impact...

Schon vor der Corona-Krise war die wirtschaftliche Lage der Krankenhäuser kontinuierlich schlechter geworden. Nun verschärft die gegenwärtige Pandemie-Situation die Schwierigkeiten weiter. Damit auch in Zukunft eine konsequente Orientierung am Patientenwohl gemeinsam mit einer hohen...

Die Finanzierung der allgemeinen Krankenhäuser wurde vor mehr als 15 Jahren auf DRG-Fallpauschalen umgestellt (DRG: Diagnosis Related Groups). Ab dem Jahr 2003 konnten Krankenhäuser die neuen Fallpauschalen zunächst freiwillig anwenden, ab 2004 war die Abrechnung mit Fallpauschalen...

Among measures to fight hospital acquired infections, an emerging epidemic in many countries around the world, adoption of appropriate hand hygiene practices by healthcare workers is considered a priority. Despite their simplicity and effectiveness, healthcare workers’ compliance is poor, with...