[Strategics of medical centers and regional hospitals in response to new labour insurance fee schedule].
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the medical centers and regional hospitals, strategic response to the implementation of new labour insurance fee schedule. This survey selects fifty-one medical centers and regional hospitals, with the response rate of 92.73%. This questionnaire was developed and evaluated by the authors and mailed to the questionnaire response by hospital's director or relative department director. We have selected Shortell et al. (1985) theory as the framework for evaluating and explaining hospital response to regulation environment (ex: change in the reimbursement system) at institutional-level response (ex: hospital association activity aimed at influencing regulation), managerial-level response (ex: increased physician participation in hospital-wide decision making; starting or expanding a planning department) and technical-level response (ex: shared clinical services such as lab., X-ray, pharmacy). The result found that hospitals with the characteristics as non-public ownership, medical centers, bigger size, and more administrative staff are more inclined to adopt institutional-level response. And a technical-level response occurs to hospital when market competibility becomes more intense which leads to higher reimbursement resource dependency.
Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan, Republic of China.
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Wang
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Sheen
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Ko
D005245:Fee Schedules; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires