Despite the current wave of US hospital mergers, it is unclear how they change behaviour and performance. Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Raffaella Sadun, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh show that while mergers have achieved some goals - harmonising electronic medical records and sending managers to target hospitals - it produced few gains in overall performance.
Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Raffaella Sadun, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh
16 January 2022
VoxEU
https://voxeu.org/article/opening-black-box-hospital-mergers
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