This chapter reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and
health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A …

This analysis of the United States health system reviews the developmentsin organization
and governance, health financing, health care provision, health reforms and health system …

The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in contrast to
claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus …

The full-service US hospital has been described organizationally as a “solution shop,” in
which medical problems are assumed to be unstructured and to require expert physicians to …

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are rapidly being implemented across the United
States, but little is known about what environmental and organizational factors are …

Purpose–Research into the identification and development of value propositions has
recently been identified as a key research priority by the Marketing Science Institute. The …

Hospitals traditionally segregate resources into centralized functional departments such as
diagnostic departments, ambulatory care centers, and nursing wards. In recent years this …

Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), limited‐service alternatives for treating surgery patients
not requiring an overnight stay, are a health‐care service innovation that has proliferated in …

This study asks: Does the empirical evidence support the conclusion that for-profit (FP)
hospitals are more productive or efficient than private not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals or non …

We investigate differences in patients' length of stay between National Health Service (NHS)
public hospitals, specialised public treatment centres and private treatment centres that …