caa a22 4500 445332492 CHVBK 20180317142742.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10198-010-0254-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10198-010-0254-2 Discrimination in waiting times by insurance type and financial soundness of German acute care hospitals [Elektronische Daten] [Christoph Schwierz, Achim Wübker, Ansgar Wübker, Björn Kuchinke] This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI holders. Further, we find that hospitals offering private insurees shorter waiting times when compared with SHI holders have a significantly better financial performance than those abstaining from or with less discrimination. Springer-Verlag, 2010 Private health insurance nationallicence Waiting time nationallicence German acute care hospitals nationallicence Schwierz Christoph KCE Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre, Boulevard du Jardin Botanique, 55, 1000, Brussels, Belgium aut Wübker Achim Universität Osnabrück, Albrechtstraße 28a, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany aut Wübker Ansgar Universität Witten/Herdecke, Lehrstuhl für Institutionenökonomik und Gesundheitssystemmanagement, Alfred-Herrhausen-Str. 50, 58448, Witten, Germany aut Kuchinke Björn Technische Universität Ilmenau, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Ernst-Abbe-Zentrum, Ehrenbergstraße 29, 98693, Ilmenau, Germany aut The European Journal of Health Economics Springer-Verlag 12/5(2011-10-01), 405-416 1618-7598 12:5<405 2011 12 10198 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-010-0254-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-010-0254-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schwierz Christoph KCE Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre, Boulevard du Jardin Botanique, 55, 1000, Brussels, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wübker Achim Universität Osnabrück, Albrechtstraße 28a, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wübker Ansgar Universität Witten/Herdecke, Lehrstuhl für Institutionenökonomik und Gesundheitssystemmanagement, Alfred-Herrhausen-Str. 50, 58448, Witten, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kuchinke Björn Technische Universität Ilmenau, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Ernst-Abbe-Zentrum, Ehrenbergstraße 29, 98693, Ilmenau, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The European Journal of Health Economics Springer-Verlag 12/5(2011-10-01), 405-416 1618-7598 12:5<405 2011 12 10198 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer