The effect of reimbursement on the intensity of hospital services.(Author abstract)

From: Southern Economic Journal | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

1. Introduction

We examine how an exogenous change in the average reimbursement of a hospital admission affects within-hospital treatment intensity. Treatment intensity has been shown to be correlated with the quality of a patient's outcome (Picone et al. 2003) and may also be correlated with the non-health-related utility of the patient stay. Both health-related and non-health-related intensity will affect overall patient utility and thus a patient's choice of a hospital. However, we focus on treatment intensity that is specific to the patient and disease, such as number of ...

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