Should Hospitals and Managed Care Organizations Compete for the Health of It

This empirical research uses data from the population of inpatient Medicare hospitalization occurrences in Florida during 1995. Seventeen diagnoses are selected and examined using patient discharge data from this state. Measures of local competition, including Herfindahl indices as measures of hospital and managed care market structure, are constructed using these patient data, the A.H.A. Annual Survey data, and H.C.F.A. data. Quality of care is measured by simple mortality. In this thesis, we provide clear evidence of the impact of managed care status and competition in both the hospital and managed care markets on the quality of health care for the Medicare population.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Houlihan, Colleen

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lawrence DeBrock

• Business Administration, Marketing

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9912269

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85636