1. Welcome message from the new editor

   • Gregory S. Zaric

   EditorialNotes 14 February 2020 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Approaches for identifying U.S. medicare fraud in provider claims data

   • Matthew Herland
   • Richard A. Bauder
   • Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar

   OriginalPaper 27 October 2018 Pages: 2 - 19

   

3. Theoretical bounds and approximation of the probability mass function of future hospital bed demand

   • Samuel Davis
   • Nasser Fard

   OriginalPaper 06 November 2018 Pages: 20 - 33

   

4. Chemotherapy appointment scheduling and daily outpatient–nurse assignment

   • Menel Benzaid
   • Nadia Lahrichi
   • Louis-Martin Rousseau

   OriginalPaper 03 January 2019 Pages: 34 - 50

   

5. Multi-objective admission planning problem: a two-stage stochastic approach

   • Ana Batista
   • Jorge Vera
   • David Pozo

   OriginalPaper 15 January 2019 Pages: 51 - 65

   

6. Characterization of the flow of patients in a hospital from complex networks

   • M. A. Miranda
   • S. Salvatierra
   • V. Rodríguez

   OriginalPaper 03 January 2019 Pages: 66 - 79

   

7. Analyzing economies of scale and scope in hospitals by use of case mix planning

   • Sebastian McRae
   • Jens O. Brunner
   • Jonathan F. Bard

   OriginalPaper 21 February 2019 Pages: 80 - 101

   

8. Decision models for distinguishing between clinically insignificant and significant tumors in prostate cancer biopsies: an application of Bayes’ Theorem to reduce costs and improve outcomes

   • Arthur J. Swersey
   • John Colberg
   • Rodney Parker

   OriginalPaper 18 March 2019 Pages: 102 - 116

   

9. Simulation-based optimization to improve hospital patient assignment to physicians and clinical units

   • Hui Zhang
   • Thomas J. Best
   • David O. Meltzer

   OriginalPaper 19 April 2019 Pages: 117 - 141

   

10. Identifying the contribution to hospital performance among Chinese regions by an aggregate directional distance function

    • Zhiyang Shen
    • Vivian Valdmanis

    OriginalPaper 19 April 2019 Pages: 142 - 152

    

11. Symbiotic simulation for the operational management of inpatient beds: model development and validation using Δ-method

    • David Oakley
    • Bhakti Stephan Onggo
    • Dave Worthington

    OriginalPaper Open access 03 June 2019 Pages: 153 - 169

    

12. Correction to: The use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in healthcare with a focus on hospitals

    • Sebastian Kohl
    • Jan Schoenfelder
    • Jens O. Brunner

    Correction 29 March 2018 Pages: 170 - 170