Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 26th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview V. Public Finance and Management Author(s) Sorin Gabriel Anton University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Iasi Iasi Romania Title The Impact of Health Care Reforms on the Technical Efficiency of Health Systems - Some Empirical Evidence from Central and Eastern European Countries File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Sorin Gabriel Anton Abstract The aim of the paper is to investigate the impact of health care reforms on the technical efficiency of the national health systems from selective Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. We employed an output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure the technical efficiency of the health systems using data on infant death and life expectancy as health outcomes. The empirical results show that the average efficiency of health production has made a progress as the number of countries with relative technical efficiency has increased gradually. We found that technical efficiency varies across new EU member states and this translates into potential savings. Cyprus and Slovenia have performed best in transforming money into health outcomes. Hungary and the Slovak Republic have the largest margins for improving health outcomes while keeping spending constant. Our results are useful for policy-makers in designing long-term health reform plan aimed to improve the performance and the sustainability of the emerging healthcare systems. Keywords: Central and Eastern Europe; technical efficiency; Data Envelopment Analysis; health care reform; health policy.