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- Title
Discrimination in waiting times by insurance type and financial soundness of German acute care hospitals.
- Authors
Schwierz, Christoph; Wübker, Achim; Wübker, Ansgar; Kuchinke, Björn
- Abstract
This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI holders. Further, we find that hospitals offering private insurees shorter waiting times when compared with SHI holders have a significantly better financial performance than those abstaining from or with less discrimination.
- Subjects
GERMANY; DISCRIMINATION in medical care; HOSPITAL care; HEALTH self-insurance; ECONOMIC status; CRITICAL care medicine
- Publication
European Journal of Health Economics, 2011, Vol 12, Issue 5, p405
- ISSN
1618-7598
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10198-010-0254-2