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  • Healthcare Management
  • Public Policy

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  • Many countries implement hospital competition policies to enhance healthcare performance.
  • The Netherlands introduced hospital competition reforms between 2008 and 2015.

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  • To evaluate the impact of hospital competition on healthcare performance in the Netherlands.
  • To analyze the relationship between competition components and hospital efficiency.

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  • Utilized a unique longitudinal dataset of all Dutch hospitals and health insurers (2008-2015).
  • Employed Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure hospital performance.
  • Developed novel variables for hospital market power, insurer bargaining power, and freely negotiated services.

Main Results:

  • Hospital efficiency was positively associated with inter-hospital competition and the proportion of freely negotiated health services.
  • An increasing fraction of health services contracted competitively may have negatively impacted hospital efficiency.
  • No significant link was found between insurer bargaining power and hospital efficiency.

Conclusions:

  • The introduction of competition in Dutch hospitals yielded limited evidence of overall effectiveness.
  • Policy measures aimed at increasing competition require careful consideration of their impact on efficiency.