TY  - JOUR
AU  - Santerre,Rexford E.
AU  - Vernon,John A.
TI  - Testing for Ownership Mix Efficiency: The Case of the Nursing Home Industry
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11115
PY  - 2005
Y2  - February 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11115
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11115.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Rexford E. Santerre
E-Mail: rsanterre@business.uconn.edu

John Vernon
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Health Policy & Management
1101C McGavran-Greenberg Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7411
Tel: 919/966-8930
E-Mail: vernon@email.unc.edu
AB  - This paper offers an empirical test of ownership mix efficiency in the U.S. nursing home industry. We test to compare the benefits of quality assurance with the costs from the attenuation of property rights that result from an increased presence of nonprofit organizations. The empirical results suggest that too few nonprofit nursing homes may exist in the typical market area of the U.S. The policy implication is that more quality of care per dollar might be obtained by attracting a greater percentage of nonprofit nursing homes into most market areas.
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