Dr Andrew Walker, an expert in health economics at Glasgow University, highlighted the problem in a report on hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).
BBC: Infections 'impacting' on NHS
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But behavioral economics yields an insight into an important phenomenon influencing hospital prices, a phenomenon I came across while reading a 2005 Lewin Group report on hospital pricing.
FORBES: Hospital Pricing and Irrational Thinking
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Well, Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt, who studies health care economics and blogs about it for the New York Times, has derived what he calls a technical definition of hospital charges.