Private hospitals in Australia

Productivity Commission

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Abstract: Amongst other things, this report: . provides a statistical overview of the structure of the industry and the activities of the 500 acute care, psychiatric and day hospitals that operate within it; . looks at some indicators of the industry’s financial performance, efficiency and quality of service (though it does not attempt to benchmark private hospitals against the public hospital system); . discusses some of the key factors affecting performance, including the relationships between private hospitals, doctors and the health insurance funds; and . draws attention to a number of policy issues germane to the industry’s future performance, including licensing arrangements for private hospitals and competitive neutrality, both within the industry and between private and public hospitals.

Keywords: private; hospitals; -; hospital; services; -; financial; performance; -; profitability; -; efficiency; -; quality; of; care; -; performance; indicators; -; regulation; -; legislation; -; competition; -; doctors; -; Trade; Practices; Act; -; health; care; -; ageing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea
Date: 2001-07-29
Note: Type of Document - Word 97; prepared on IBM PC ; to print on HP; figures: included
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