Payment schemes and cost efficiency: evidence from Swiss public hospitals

International Journal of Health Economics and Management

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 73-97

  Meyer, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost efficiency; Heteroscedastic frontier models; Inpatient payment systems; Prospective reimbursement; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; EMERGENCY CARE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MARKET; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; REIMBURSEMENT; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84974625489     PISSN: 21999023     EISSN: 21999031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10754-014-9159-4     Document Type: Article

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