Collaboration and competition policy in a market-based hospital system: a case-study from The Netherlands
In the Dutch healthcare system, provider competition is used as a tool to improve efficiency. From a competition policy perspective, little is known about how collaboration among healthcare providers contributes to overall patient welfare, and how a balance is achieved between scale benefits and preventing anticompetitive collusion. This paper examines the ex-post effects of a Dutch case study in which three competing hospitals have collaborated to provide highcomplexity low-volume cancer surgery, an arrangement that tests the limits of permissibility under the Dutch cartel prohibition. Our pr... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26832038 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://repub.eur.nl/pub/126411 |