New index provides a benchmark for measuring competition in local health care markets
HCCI May, 2017
HCCI’s Hospital Concentration Index, released today, looks at how inpatient admissions are distributed among hospitals in the same community. Typically, a higher concentration of admissions is associated with less competitive markets.
The report compares admissions for individual hospitals and hospital systems in 61 health care markets. In addition to measuring concentration using total admissions, the report also looks at how admissions are concentrated for the five most common...