Revisiting the relationship between managed care and hospital consolidation

Health Services Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1 I, 2007, Pages 219-238

  Town, Robert J ^a   Wholey, Douglas ^a   Feldman, Roger ^a   Burns, Lawton R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Consolidation; Hospitals; Managed care; Mergers

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MANAGED CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH;

AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; HEALTH FACILITY MERGER; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846403784     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2006.00601.x     Document Type: Article

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