Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality: The Key Role of Innovative Procedures

Laurent Gobillon and Carine Milcent

No 7082, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held constant, the mortality rates in for-profit and university hospitals are similar, but they are lower than in public non-teaching hospitals. When additionally controlling for innovative procedures, the mortality rate is higher in for-profit hospitals than in the two groups of public hospitals. This suggests that the quality of care in for-profit hospitals relies on innovative procedures and that, after controlling for case-mix and innovative treatments, there is a better quality of care in public hospitals.

Keywords: hospital performance; innovative procedures; hospital quality; stratified duration model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2012-12
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Forthcoming - published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 121-122, 161-186

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