Hospital ownership and efficiency: a review of studies with particular focus on Germany |
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Authors: | Tiemann Oliver Schreyögg Jonas Busse Reinhard |
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Affiliation: | a Hamburg Center for Health Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany b Dept. of Health Care Management, Berlin University of Technology, Berlin, Germany |
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Abstract: | The German hospital market has been subject over the past two decades to a variety of healthcare reforms. Particularly the introduction of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) in 2004 aimed to increase efficiency of hospitals. The objective of the paper is to review recent studies comparing the efficiency of German public, private non-profit and private for-profit hospitals. The results of the studies are quite mixed. However, in line with the evidence found in studies from other countries, especially the US, the evidence from Germany suggests that private ownership (i.e., private non-profit and private for-profit) is not necessarily associated with higher efficiency compared to public ownership. This may be a surprising result to many policy makers as private for-profit hospitals are often perceived the most efficient ownership type by the public. |
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Keywords: | Performance measurement Hospitals Data envelopment analysis Stochastic Frontier Analysis Germany |
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