Marsha G Goldfarb
Biographic Data
| ID | 1733519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marsha G Goldfarb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marsha G |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldfarb |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDFARB M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Department of Health and Human Services |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Effects of Hospital Competition on Inpatient Quality of Care
Existing empirical studies have produced inconclusive, and sometimes contradictory, findings on the effects of hospital competition on inpatient quality of care. These inconsistencies may be due to the use of different methodologies, hospital competition measures, and hospital quality measures. This paper applies the Quality Indicator software from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to the 1997 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project …
Changing returns to education in Taiwan
Redistribution of Revenues under a Prototypical Prospective Payment System
A variety of prospective payment programs have been implemented over the past decade in attempts to contain the rapidly escalating costs of providing hospital care. Eventually the hospital bills of most Americans are likely to be reimbursed on the basis of preset prices. In this simulation study the most important of the existing cost-containment programs, Medicare's Prospective Payment System, is extended to all hospital patients in order to est…
DRGs and Disease Staging for Reimbursing Medicare Patients
Beginning October 1, 1983, Medicare began reimbursing many hospitals on the basis of a set of fixed fees tied to Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs). Using 1979-1981 Maryland data for Medicare patients, this paper compares the DRG system with the Disease Staging patient classification system in terms of structure, explanation of resource consumption (length of stay) of hospital patients, and impact on reimbursement by type of hospital. The two system…
Determinants of Hospital Use
This article estimates the effects of personal, clinical, physician, and hospital characteristics in a simultaneous equations model of length of stay and ancillary services use for five narrowly defined medical and surgical conditions. These are tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy, gastroenteritis and colitis, inguinal hernia, coronary heart disease, and cholelithiasis. The data are derived from a sample survey of medical and financial records of pat…
A partial test of a hospital behavioral model
Patterns of Obstetrical Care in Hospitals
This article examines the determinants of length of stay and ancillary service use for a single diagnostic category: normal delivery. Data for a systematic sample of 945 obstetrical admissions to 48 New England hospitals during 1969-70 are used to estimate a simultaneous equations model. The exogenous variables include socioeconomic and medical characteristics of the mother, medical condition of the newborn, type of labor and delivery, and hospit…
Behavior of the Multiproduct Firm
This article presents a hospital model that recognizes the multiproduct nature of hospital output and incorporates trade-offs among various competing goals. A utility function for the hospital is defined over quantity, quality and the net revenues associated with the treatments produced. Utility is constrained by epidemiological factors and by availability of beds. The model is used to draw comparative statics implications, from which econometric…
Behavior of the Multiproduct Firm
This article presents a hospital model that recognizes the multiproduct nature of hospital output and incorporates trade-offs among various competing goals. A utility function for the hospital is defined over quantity, quality and the net revenues associated with the treatments produced. Utility is constrained by epidemiological factors and by availability of beds. The model is used to draw comparative statics implications, from which econometric…
Patterns of Obstetrical Care in Hospitals
This article examines the determinants of length of stay and ancillary service use for a single diagnostic category: normal delivery. Data for a systematic sample of 945 obstetrical admissions to 48 New England hospitals during 1969-70 are used to estimate a simultaneous equations model. The exogenous variables include socioeconomic and medical characteristics of the mother, medical condition of the newborn, type of labor and delivery, and hospit…
Determinants of Hospital Use
This article estimates the effects of personal, clinical, physician, and hospital characteristics in a simultaneous equations model of length of stay and ancillary services use for five narrowly defined medical and surgical conditions. These are tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy, gastroenteritis and colitis, inguinal hernia, coronary heart disease, and cholelithiasis. The data are derived from a sample survey of medical and financial records of pat…
A partial test of a hospital behavioral model
DRGs and Disease Staging for Reimbursing Medicare Patients
Beginning October 1, 1983, Medicare began reimbursing many hospitals on the basis of a set of fixed fees tied to Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs). Using 1979-1981 Maryland data for Medicare patients, this paper compares the DRG system with the Disease Staging patient classification system in terms of structure, explanation of resource consumption (length of stay) of hospital patients, and impact on reimbursement by type of hospital. The two system…
Redistribution of Revenues under a Prototypical Prospective Payment System
A variety of prospective payment programs have been implemented over the past decade in attempts to contain the rapidly escalating costs of providing hospital care. Eventually the hospital bills of most Americans are likely to be reimbursed on the basis of preset prices. In this simulation study the most important of the existing cost-containment programs, Medicare's Prospective Payment System, is extended to all hospital patients in order to est…
Changing returns to education in Taiwan
The Effects of Hospital Competition on Inpatient Quality of Care
Existing empirical studies have produced inconclusive, and sometimes contradictory, findings on the effects of hospital competition on inpatient quality of care. These inconsistencies may be due to the use of different methodologies, hospital competition measures, and hospital quality measures. This paper applies the Quality Indicator software from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to the 1997 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project …
Healthcare Policy and Management (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Primary Care and Health Outcomes (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare (3 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Global Health Care Issues (2 works) · Actuarial science (1 works)