caa a22 4500 467935440 CHVBK 20180406152955.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10729-006-7665-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10729-006-7665-8 Analysis of uncompensated hospital care using a DEA model of output congestion [Elektronische Daten] [Gary Ferrier, Michael Rosko, Vivian Valdmanis] Uncompensated care can create financial difficulties for hospitals. The problem is likely to worsen as the number of individuals lacking health insurance continues to grow. The objective of this study is to measure how uncompensated care affects hospitals' ability to provide the services for which they do receive compensation. Applying output-based data envelopment analysis (DEA) under various assumptions on the disposability of outputs to a sample of Pennsylvania hospitals, we find that, on average, hospitals could have produced 7% more output if they had all operated on the best-practice frontier and that uncompensated care reduced the production of other hospital outputs by 2%. Thus, even if hospitals were to operate efficiently, they might still face financial distress as a result of providing uncompensated care. The findings in our study suggest that policy makers should continue looking at ways to increase funding to hospitals providing uncompensated care while not distorting economic incentives to reduce excessive costs. Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2006 Uncompensated care nationallicence Hospital efficiency nationallicence Congestion nationallicence DEA nationallicence Ferrier Gary Department of Economics, University of Arkansas, 72701, Fayetteville, AR, USA aut Rosko Michael School of Business Administration, Widener University, 19013, Chester, PA, USA aut Valdmanis Vivian Health Policy Program, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, 600 South Forty-third Street, 19104-4495, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut Health Care Management Science Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/2(2006-05-01), 181-188 1386-9620 9:2<181 2006 9 10729 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10729-006-7665-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10729-006-7665-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ferrier Gary Department of Economics, University of Arkansas, 72701, Fayetteville, AR, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rosko Michael School of Business Administration, Widener University, 19013, Chester, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Valdmanis Vivian Health Policy Program, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, 600 South Forty-third Street, 19104-4495, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Care Management Science Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/2(2006-05-01), 181-188 1386-9620 9:2<181 2006 9 10729 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer