Getting Down to Business: Chain Ownership and Fertility Clinic Performance

A La Forgia, J Bodner - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Acquisitions by corporate entities have fueled the growth of chain organizations in
healthcare. A chain is a multiunit firm under the same ownership and management providing …

Do VIP medical services damage efficiency? New evidence of medical institutions' total factor productivity using Chinese panel data

Y Yang, M Cheng, N Chen, L Yuan… - Frontiers in Public …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
This study examines the causal impact of very important person (VIP) medical services on
hospital total factor productivity in Deyang, a prefectural-level city in western China …

The Impact of a Cost-containment Measure on the Quality of Regional Health Services in Italy: a Parametric and a Non-parametric Approach

A Ciaccio - University Ca'Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper provides novel evidence on the impact of a cost-containment measure first
introduced in Italy in 2007–Piani di Rientro sanitari (PdRs)–on the quality and efficiency of …

[PDF][PDF] NASEM Commissioned Paper: Uneven and Limited Progress Towards Racial and Ethnic Equity in Health Care and Outcomes

K Fiscella, MPHMR Sanders - 2023 - nap.nationalacademies.org
Executive Summary Background In 2003, the Institute of Medicine issued the report Unequal
Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care that documented …

The Interaction of Patient and Clinician Incentives: Evidence from Direct Primary Care1

D Schwartzman - Available at SSRN 4792866, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
I study how modified moral and behavioral hazard incentives for patients and clinicians
impact outcomes, leveraging a natural experiment where an employer introduces Direct …