1. Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania, Corso Italia 55, 95129 Catania, Italy;2. CEIS Sanità, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Via Columbia 2, 00133 Roma, Italy
Abstract:
There is an ongoing debate about the effect of different reimbursement systems on hospital performance and quality of care. The present paper aims at contributing to this literature by analysing the impact of different hospital payment schemes on patients’ outcomes in Italy.