ACM conference Impact Assessment 2016: presentation Kemp
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) organised a conference on “Impact Assessment of Interventions of Competition and Consumer Authorities”, to pay tribute to the ten-year anniversary of the ACM’s (former NMa’s) Chief Economist Office. The conference took place in Amsterdam on November 16, 2016.
This document is the presentation of Ron Kemp (ACM) from the session “Health Care”. Ron Kemp discusses whether hospital mergers lead to better quality of care. Ron investigated the development of quality of care in 14 merged hospitals compared with non-merged hospitals. These developments are compared by means of 97 quality indicators.