Journal article
Hospital mergers: who merges with whom?
Applied economics, v 38(6), pp 637-647
10 Apr 2006
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Abstract
Merger pairings are categorized based on the ownership status, teaching status, hospital size, caseload severity, and geographical distance of merging hospitals to determine the types of hospitals that tend to merge with each other. The results show that mergers between two non-teaching, nonprofit or for-profit hospitals occur more often, but that only ownership status, not teaching status, affects the propensity to merge after controlling for other merger pair characteristics. This paper also finds that hospitals are more likely to merge with a partner of similar size and close geographical proximity, but not necessarily the closest candidate. However, ownership status, not distance between hospitals, is the dominant determinant of merger pairs.
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- Title
- Hospital mergers: who merges with whom?
- Creators
- Teresa D. Harrison - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Applied economics, v 38(6), pp 637-647
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Economics (School of Economics)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000237645400004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-33646346898
- Other Identifier
- 991019167600204721
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