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- Title
Hospital Inefficiency: What is the Impact of Membership in Different Types of Systems?
- Authors
Rosko, Michael D.; Proenca, Jose; Zinn, Jacqueline S.; Bazzoli, Gloria J.
- Abstract
The primary objective of this study is to assess whether systematic differences in inefficiency are associated with hospital membership in different types of systems. We employed the Battese/Coelli simultaneous stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) technique to estimate hospital cost inefficiency. Mean estimated inefficiency was 8.42%. Membership in different types of systems was related to estimated cost inefficiency (p < 05). Compared to hospitals that were members of centralized health systems, membership in centralized physician/insurance or decentralized systems was associated with decreased inefficiency; membership in independent systems was associated with increased inefficiency.
- Subjects
HOSPITAL administration; COST effectiveness; HEALTH systems agencies; HEALTH services administration; MEDICAL care costs; MEDICAL economics; MEMBERSHIP; HEALTH insurance; COST analysis
- Publication
Inquiry (00469580), 2007, Vol 44, Issue 3, p335
- ISSN
0046-9580
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5034/inquiryjrnl_44.3.335