Jongsay Yong

Nursing Home Competition, Prices and Quality: A Scoping Review and Policy Lessons.

Ou Yang, Jongsay Yong, Anthony Scott

Journal article  |  2021  |  Gerontologist

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In recent years, countries have increasingly relied on markets to improve efficiency, contain costs, an..

Does socioeconomic status affect hospital utilization and health outcomes of chronic disease patients?

Jongsay Yong, Ou Yang

Journal article  |  2021  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS

This study quantifies the extent socioeconomic status (SES) affects hospital utilization and adverse hospital events of chronic di..

Invasive Coronary Angiography after Chest Pain Presentations to Emergency Departments

Frank M Sanfilippo, Graham S Hillis, Jamie M Rankin, Donald Latchem, Carl J Schultz, Jongsay Yong, Ian W Li, Tom G Briffa

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

We investigated patients presenting to emergency departments (EDs) with chest pain to identify factors that influence the use of i..

The falling growth in the use of private hospitals in Australia

Tianshu Bai, Susan Mendez, Anthony Scott, Jongsay Yong

Report  |  2020

Australia has a rich public-private mix of financing and provision of healthcare. Since mid-2015, the higher growth in out of pock..

Private or Public? The declining growth in the use of private healthcare in Australia

Tianshu Bai, Susan Mendez, Anthony Scott, Jongsay Yong

Report  |  2020

The past five years has seen a steady decline in private health insurance (PHI) membership in Australia. With rising premium price..

An Examination of Public Hospital Productivity and its Persistence: An Index Number Approach

CC Cheng, A Scott, V Sundararajan, W Yan, J Yong

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Australian Economic Review

This paper measures the level and growth of total factor productivity (TFP) of public hospitals in Victoria, Australia, using an i..

Should hospital funding be linked to socioeconomic status?

Jongsay Yong, Ou Yang

Report  |  2020

How does socioeconomic status impacts one's health and their access to healthcare? Using records from the Victorian Department of ..

Nursing Home Competition, Prices and Quality: A Review and Some Lessons for Australia

Ou Yang, Jongsay Yong, Anthony Scott

Report  |  2020

In recent years, with the aim of containing cost pressure and improving efficiency, many countries have begun to introduce market ..

Cream skimming: Theory and evidence from hospital transfers and capacity utilization

O Yang, MK Chan, TC Cheng, J Yong

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

The paper examines cream skimming behaviour by studying hospital transfers in a mixed public-private hospital system. A key innova..

Does profit-motivated patient selection exist in Australia?

Ou Yang, Jongsay Yong

Report  |  2020

The proliferation of prospective payment arrangements, and more recently bundled payment models, has highlighted issues surroundin..