Healthcare Reforms and Competition in Private Hospital Markets in Türkiye

This article investigates the hospital market in Türkiye during a period in which a surge happened in the number of private hospitals nationwide following the inception of the reforms under the Health Transformation Program 2003-2013 (HTP).Bresnahan and Reiss's (1991) static model of firm entry is employed to estimate the market size thresholds for hospital entry in a cross-section of local districts of Türkiye for the years 2002 and 2010 which represent preand post-reforms periods.The multi-period analyses clarify the change in the hospital competition over the years, along with providing a measure to assess the overall role of the health reforms and regulations in shaping the hospital industry.