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E B Keeler1, G Melnick, J Zwanziger.
Abstract
Has the nature of hospital competition changed from a medical arms race in which hospitals compete for patients by offering their doctors high quality services to a price war for the patients of payors? This paper uses time-series cross-sectional methods on California hospital discharge data from 1986-1994 to show the association of hospital prices with measures of market concentration changed steadily over this period, with prices now higher in less competitive areas, even for non-profit hospitals. Regression results are used to simulate the price impact of hypothetical hospital mergers.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID： 10338820 DOI： 10.1016/s0167-6296(98)00036-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Health Econ ISSN： 0167-6296 Impact factor: 3.883