The impact of hospital competition and insurer concentration on health care volume and cost in Dutch hospitals
This study analyses the effect of spatial concentration of general hospitals, the appearance of independent treatment centers (in Dutch: Zelfstandige Behandelcentra: ZBCs) and the concentration of health insurers on production volume and costs since the introduction of market-oriented health care reforms in the Netherlands. We use regression analyses of 1,345,144 patient-level hospital data for fifteen major diagnosis treatment combinations (in Dutch: Diagnose Behandeling Combinaties: DBCs), representing 70% of the managed competition segment (the so-called B-segment). We find that spatial con... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Research article |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
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Amsterdam University Press
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Schlagwörter: | Health care / hospital / costing and pricing of health services / DBC / Independent Treatment Centers (ZBCs) |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26645733 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.5117/mab.93.34164 |