An observational study of health care provider collaboration networks and heterogenous hospital cost efficiency and quality outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Provider network structure has been linked to hospital cost, utilization, and to a lesser degree quality, outcomes; however, it remains unknown whether these relationships are heterogeneous across different acute care hospital characteristics and US states. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether there are heterogeneous relationships between hospital provider network structure and hospital outcomes (cost efficiency and quality); and to assess the sources of measured heterogeneous effects. We use recent causal random forest techniques to estimate (hospital specific) heterogeneous treatment effects between hospitals' provider network structures and their performance (across cost efficiency and quality). Using Medicare cost report, hospital quality and provider patient sharing data

SUBMITTER: Linde S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9524875 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature