The Effect of Selective Contracting on Hospital Costs and Revenues.

From: Health Services Research | Date: October 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Objective. To examine the effects of selective contracting on California hospital costs and revenues over the 1983-1997 period.

Data Sources/Study Setting. Annual disclosure data and discharge data sets for 421 California general acute care hospitals from 1980 to 1997.

Analysis. Using measures of competition developed from patient-level discharge data, and financial and utilization measures from the disclosure data, we estimated a fixed effect multivariate regression model of hospital costs and revenues.

Findings. We found that hospitals in more competitive areas had ...

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