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Do Mergers Benefit Patients in Underperforming Administrations? Lessons from Area Health Service Amalgamation

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  • Meliyanni Johar
  • Elizabeth Savage

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Evidence supporting the effects of mergers in healthcare markets on quality is mixed. In this study we exploit a government policy in NSW that imposed mergers on area health services (AHSs) to evaluate the effects of the merger on patient waiting times, an indicator of quality. We focus on the specific question of whether the merger had a larger impact on worse-performing AHSs. Our results show heterogeneous impacts, reducing waiting times for relatively urgent public patients but further delaying non-urgent patients. In addition, we find the merger reduced the waiting time gap between public and private patients.

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  • Meliyanni Johar & Elizabeth Savage, 2014. "Do Mergers Benefit Patients in Underperforming Administrations? Lessons from Area Health Service Amalgamation," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 90(291), pages 526-535, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecorec:v:90:y:2014:i:291:p:526-535
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    1. Vanessa Cirulli & Giorgia Marini & Marco A. Marini & Odd Rune Straume, 2023. "Do hospital mergers reduce waiting times? Theory and evidence from the english NHS," NIPE Working Papers 07/2023, NIPE - Universidade do Minho.

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