- Title
- Variations in rural hospital costs: effects of market concentration and location.
- First Author
- Vogel, W Bruce
- Date of Pub
- 1995 Fall
- Pages
- 69-83
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 1
- Other Authors
- Miller, Michael K
- Abstract
- This article explores two neglected questions: (1) Does the relationship between hospital concentration and costs vary between urban and rural markets? and (2) Do hospital costs in non-metropolitan areas vary with rurality? Covariance model results using 1992 data reveal that: (1) Although metropolitan and urban markets exhibit a negative relationship between hospital average costs and market concentration, non-metropolitan and rural markets fail to exhibit any relationship between costs and concentration; and (2) among non-metropolitan hospitals, only hospitals located in single-hospital communities have lower costs than their counterparts in multiple-hospital communities, once other factors are held constant.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Catchment Area (Health)/economics : Comparative Study : Geography : Hospital Costs/statistics & numerical data/standards : Hospitals, Rural/economics/statistics & numerical data : Hospitals, Urban/economics/statistics & numerical data : Models, Economic : Models, Statistical : Multivariate Analysis : Regression Analysis : United States
- NTIS Number
- PB96-139548
