Hospital's response to competition

Impact on price and quality

Theory

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Pauly M 2004 Competition in Medical Services and the Quality of Care: Concepts and History International Journal of Health Care Finance & Economics 4(2):113-30
Siciliani L 2005 Does more choice reduce waiting times? Health Economics 14: 17–23
Xavier A 2003 Hospital competition, GP fundholders and waiting times in the UK internal market: the case of elective surgery International Journal of Healthcare Finance & Economics 3: 25-51

Empirical

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Abraham J, Gaynor M & Vogt W 2003 Entry and Competition in Local Hospital Markets CMPO working paper no. 88 Cross-section
Brooks J, Dor A & Wong, H 1997 Hospital-insurer bargaining: An empirical investigation of appendectomy pricing Journal of Health Economics 16: 417-434 Pooled cross-section time series
Croxson B, Propper C and Perkins A 2001 Do doctors respond to financial incentives? UK family doctors and the GP fundholder scheme Journal of Public Economics, 79 (2): 375-398 Panel
Dranove D & Ludwick R 1999 Competition and Pricing by Non-profit Hospitals: A Reassessment of Lynk’s Analysis Journal of Health Economics 18(1): 87-98 Pooled cross-section time series
Gaynor M & Vogt W 2003 Competition Among Hospitals Rand Journal of Economics 34(4): 764-785 Cross-section
Gowrisankaran G & Town R 2003 Competition, Payers and Hospital Quality Health Services Research 38: 1403–1421 Panel
Hamilton B & Bramley-Harker R 1999 The impact of the NHS reforms on queues and surgical outcomes in England: evidence from hip fracture patients Economic Journal 109: 437-462 Pooled cross-section time-series
Hamilton B & Ho V 2000 Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions: Does Market Consolidation Harm Patients? Journal of Health Economics 19(5): 767-791 Panel
Kessler M & Geppert J 2003 The Effects of Hospital Competition on Variation in Utilization and Quality of Care presented at AHRQ/FTC Conference 'Provider Competition and Quality', May 28, 2003. Panel
Kessler D & McClellan M 2000 Is hospital competition socially wasteful? Quarterly Journal of Economics 115(2): 577-616 Panel
Mukamel D, Zwanziger J & Bamezai A 2002 Hospital competition, resource allocation and quality of care BMC Health Services Research 2:10 Panel
Mukamel D, Zwanziger J & Tomaszewski J 2001 HMO penetration, competition, and risk-adjusted hospital mortality’ HSR 36:1019-35 Cross-section
Propper C 1996 Market structure and prices: the responses of hospitals in the UK National Health Service to competition Journal of Public Economics 61(3): 307-335 Panel
Propper C, Burgess S & Gossage D 2003 Competition and quality: evidence from the NHS internal market 1991-1999 CMPO working paper Panel
Propper C, Burgess S & Green K 2004 Does competition between hospitals improve the quality of care? Hospital death rates and the NHS internal market Journal of Public Economics 88 (7-8): 1247-1272 Cross-section
Propper C, Croxson B & Shearer A 2002 Waiting times for hospital admissions: the impact of GP fundholding Journal of Health Economics 21 (2): 227-252 Panel
Propper C, Wilson D & Söderlund N 1998 The effects of regulation and competition in the NHS internal market: the case of general practice fundholder prices Journal of Health Economics, 17(6): 645-673 Panel
Sari N 2002 Do competition and managed care improve quality? Health Economics 11:571-584 Panel
Shortell S & Hughes E 1988 The Effects of Regulation, Competition, and Ownership on Mortality Rates among Hospital inpatients New England Journal of Medicine 318(17): 1100-1107 Cross-section
Söderlund N, Csaba I, Gray A, Milne R and Raftery J 1997 Impact of the NHS reforms on English hospital productivity: an analysis of the first three years British Medical Journal, 315: 1126-1129 Cross section & Longitudinal
Tay A 2003 Assessing competition in hospital care markets: the importance of accounting for quality differentiation Rand Journal of Economics, 34 (4): 786-814 Cross-section
Wong H & Mutter R 2003 The effects of hospital consolidation on quality of care presented at AHRQ/FTC Conference 'Provider Competition and Quality', May 28, 2003. Panel

Literature Surveys

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Glennerster H 1998 Competition and quality in health care: the UK experience International Journal for Quality in Health Care 10(5): 403-41
U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice 2004 Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition Available online here