The Role of Hospital Ownership under Universal Health Insurance: Evidence from Stroke Treatment in Taiwan
2005/06/28
研討會日期 : 2005-06-28
時間 : 15:00
主講人 : Prof. Chou, Shin-Yi
地點 : B棟110室
演講者簡介 : Prof.Chou, Shin-Yi 為Ph.D. in Economics，Duke University (1999)。
現為Assistant Professor，Lehigh University。
其主要研究領域為Health Economics、Applied Econometrics及Applied Microeconomics。
演講摘要 : The adoption of universal health insurance (UHI) inevitably reduces the need of uncompensated care, one important reason to grant subsidies to nonprofit hospitals. To what extent nonprofits should be subsidized in the universal insurance regime is thus in question. This paper compares cost and quality of new stroke cases across hospitals of different ownership status in Taiwan, the latest country adopting UHI. Our results show that stroke patients admitted to nonprofit hospitals receive better quality. We find no differences on cost by hospital ownership, but for-profit hospitals have shorter length of stay, and incur higher per-day expenditure than other hospitals.
