Empirical Analysis the Competitive Effects of Profit-making Hospitals / 中国卫生经济

ABSTRACT

Objective: From the two prospective of hospital quantity and hospital market shares, to analyze the influences of profitmaking hospital’s competition on medical expenses and medical quality. Methods: The sample of provincial panel data from 2003 to 2011 is used, the fixed effect model is applied. Conclusion: For the competitive effect, the expanding of relative scale of profit-making hospitals increased outpatient expenses and reduced hospitalization expenses; for the quality effectiveness, the expand of relative scale of profit -hospitals improved the quality of outpatient service; the simple increase of the quantity of profit -making hospitals had no significant influences on medical expenses and quality of medical care.