The effect of publishing hospital charges on healthcare costs: Evidence from Singapore

Rasyad Parinduri

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Abstract: This paper examines the effect of publishing hospital charges on healthcare costs. We compare hospital charges before and after Singapore's Ministry of Health started publishing the statistics of hospital charges on its website in the late 2003. We do not find evidence of a decrease in healthcare costs. However, we find some evidence of an increase in cost dispersion, a decrease in patients' length of stay at hospitals, and an increase in hospital care cost per day.

Keywords: hospital charges publication; healthcare costs; cost dispersion; Singapore (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 I11 L10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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