Wong H & Mutter R, (2003)

‘The Effects of Hospital Consolidation on Quality of Care’

Presented at Agency for health care research and quality/
Federal Trade Commission Provider Competition and Quality Conference, May 28, 2003

• Analysis of how hospitals respond to mergers and competition.
• The authors create proxy measures for hospital quality, then estimate the average quality of consolidating hospitals before & after consolidation

Key results:

• Preliminary results suggest an increase in quality following consolidation. Whether the increase is experienced by the acquired hospital or the purchaser depends on the quality measure.

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