Sari, N. (2002)
‘Do Competition and Managed Care Improve Quality?’
Health Economics 11: 571-584
- Investigates the impact of managed care and hospital competition on quality using in-hospital complications as quality measures.
- The author uses panel data for hospitals from up to 16 states in the 1992-1997 period.
Key results:
- Both higher hospital market share and market concentration are associated with lower quality of care. Hospital mergers have undesirable quality consequences.
- Higher managed care penetration increases quality on several measures. For other complication categories, coefficient estimates are statistically insignificant.
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