HMO penetration, ownership status, and the rise of hospital advertising
By: Jason R. Barro, Michael Chu.
Contributors: Chu, Michael.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- no. 8899; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 8899.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Advertising -- Hospitals -- United States.; Managed care plans (Medical care) -- United States.; Public hospitals -- United States -- Finance.; Financial Management, Hospital -- United States.; Marketing of Health Services -- trends -- United States.; Health Maintenance Organizations -- economics -- United States.; Hospitals, Proprietary -- economics -- United States.; Voluntary hospitals -- economics -- United States.
Notes: "April 2002."

JEL no. I1, L3, L1.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 15).

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