Medical providers often have a significant influence on treatment decisions which they can use in their own financial … increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the …

Medical providers often have a significant influence on treatment decisions which they can use in their own financial … increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the …

prices for hospitals on multiple dimensions of hospital quality, including mortality outcomes, surgical complications … and 2010 based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. We find that changes in reimbursement prices do not affect …