کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
962194 930000 2006 28 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Strategic integration of hospitals and physicians
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
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Strategic integration of hospitals and physicians
چکیده انگلیسی
A striking development in the healthcare market place has been the formation of strategic relationships between hospitals and physicians. Hospital-physician integration appears to be a response to rapidly expanding managed care health insurance. We examine whether integration lead to efficiency gains from transaction cost economies thereby allowing providers to offer managed care insurance plans lower prices or whether integration is really a strategy to improve bargaining power and thereby increase prices. We find that integration has little effect on efficiency, but is associated with an increase in prices, especially when the integrated organization is exclusive and occurs in less competitive markets.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Health Economics - Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 1-28
نویسندگان
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