Text: Health Economics: Theory, Insights, and Industry Studies(6th Edition) ( chapter 13)
Current activity in the hospital industry shows that hospitalsare consolidating to form multihospital systems. Based on yourreading in the text, what do empirical studies indicate concerningcost savings of multihospital systems over single hospitalsystems?
Why are multihospital systems expected to be cost saving?
Why would we continue to see multihospital systems forming evenif cost savings are not as evident as expected?
