Artikel

The impact of agglomeration economies on hospital input prices

This paper examines the extent to which agglomeration of the hospital service industry enhances the productivity of producing health care. Specifically, we use a large set of private insurance claims from the FAIR Health database to show that an increasing spatial concentration of hospital services results in a decreased cost of obtaining intermediate medical services. We explicitly test whether the reduced cost at concentrated locations arises from the ability to share intermediate service providers. The identification relies on state variation in medical lab technician licensure requirements, which influence the cost of intermediate services only through the cost of running a lab. Our findings suggest that agglomeration of the hospital service industry attracts specialized medical labs, which in turn help to reduce the cost of producing laboratory tests.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Health Economics Review ; ISSN: 2191-1991 ; Volume: 5 ; Year: 2015 ; Issue: 38 ; Pages: 1-15 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: General
Analysis of Health Care Markets
Organization of Production
Thema
Agglomeration
Health care
Input sharing

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Friedson, Andrew I.
Li, Jing
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Springer
(wo)
Heidelberg
(wann)
2015

DOI
doi:10.1186/s13561-015-0075-1
Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Friedson, Andrew I.
  • Li, Jing
  • Springer

Entstanden

  • 2015

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