[PDF] Top 20 Cost Convergence Between Public and For-Profit Hospitals under Prospective Payment and High Competition in Taiwan

... area for care. Phipps and Robinson (1993) refined the HHI to represent a variable-radius market area, such that a specific percentage of a hospital’s admissions (75 percent or 90 percent) come from the ... See full document

... OBJECTIVE: To test the hypotheses that: (1) average adjusted costs per discharge are higher in high-competition relative to low-competition markets, and (2) increased competition is as[r] ... See full document

... roidectomy and two other diagnoses covered by case payment were higher in public hospitals than in FP hospitals, with the reverse being true in respect of three ... See full document

... This study in Taiwan examined the relationships between health care costs and hospital ownership under two financing systems with diametrically opposite incentives, case-payment (a for[r] ... See full document

... those in Proposition ...weight for the social welfare to derive the interior ...more in response to an increase in the tax ...the for-profit firm produces ...desirable and ... See full document

... nificance in the analyses used in this study. Conclusions Traditional cost-based reimbursement was blamed for wide variations among hospitals for treat- ing similar ...variations ... See full document

... Case payment has been implemented since the beginning of Taiwan's National Health Insurance Program in ...relationships between maternal length of stay (LOS) and hospital ... See full document

... For all three diagnoses, for-profit (FP) hospitals not only had lower lengths of stay (LOS) compared to public hospitals, but also showed very high odds of patient transfer to their ow[r] ... See full document

... difference between suburban and rural townships in the number of ED visits to hospitals of the same ...EDs in the same township with few ED ...relationship between number of ED ... See full document

... Based on the health care provider's analytic perspective, four effectiveness indicators and four service costs were identified and measured, and the ratio of average cost value to eff[r] ... See full document

... drugs and non- prescription (over the counter [OTC]) ...Generally, payment for OTC drugs is not covered by health plans. In terms of prescription drugs, few insurance systems or providers ... See full document

... services. In Taiwan, chronic psychiatric patients’ community medical services and rehabilitation are always topics to which importance is attached by the psychiatric medical ... See full document

... mechanism in tumorigenesis. 14 For instance, Hong et al suggested that fine-grained regulations (eg, allele-specific splicing) could yield sub-genic level variations that were linked to the pathogenesis of ... See full document

... Cataract cases show high divergence of admission odds between public and FP/NFP hospitals regardless of competition level (OR range for different hospital types under high competition,[r] ... See full document

... As a result of the women's toilet Tiiovement of 1996, public restrooms and related gender issues received widespread attention from the general public and the government. Women were cons[r] ... See full document

... concession for special passengers, such as the aged and the handicapped, previously cross-subsidized by the full-fare passengers in old days, would now be subsidized from the government ...quality ... See full document

... result in increased possibilities of malpractice suits, the more unwilling the hospital was to use hospital report ...Health in Taiwan in 2000 (DOH, 2002), the number of malpractice lawsuits ... See full document

... closed and uplifted from north to south and compressed into the deformation front buried west of ...Range and its southern extension of the submarine Hengchun Ridge which ends at about ...boundary ... See full document

... performance and reallocate resources among across regions based on needs and necessities in order to improve the system-wide ...efficiency. In addition, MoH should establish a database that ... See full document

... The data showed that inoculation simultaneously with unequal numbers of the two species , 750: 250, resulted in significant suppression of penetration of the lesser species comparing to [r] ... See full document