Hospital Mergers And Savings For Consumers: Exploring New Evidence
- 1 July 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 20 (4) , 150-158
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.20.4.150
Abstract
This study analyzes changes in costs and prices from 1989 to 1997 for 1,767 short-term hospitals, including 204 hospitals involved in mergers; 653 hospitals that were rivals to these merging hospit...Keywords
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