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Title: | The Impact of Hospital Consolidation: An Examination of Consolidating Hospitals and Their Rivals |
Author(s): | Spang, Heather Radach |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Arnould, Richard J. |
Department / Program: | Economics |
Discipline: | Economics |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Health Sciences, Health Care Management |
Abstract: | Results from the multivariate analysis showed that for-profit hospitals had significantly higher costs and prices before consolidation and significantly lower costs and prices after consolidation. However, these post-consolidation price savings were mitigated by market concentration. Therefore, in highly concentrated markets, there was evidence that market power effects dominated efficiency effects. Conversely, rival hospital costs and prices changes in the third study did not vary significantly from match market hospitals. |
Issue Date: | 2001 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 125 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/85684 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI9996685 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-25 |
Date Deposited: | 2001 |
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Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois