transport patients and have strong preferences for certain hospitals. Being admitted to a hospital with two standard deviations … hospital in a concentrated market increases spending but has no detectable effect on mortality …

air pollution shock mitigation in a high-stakes healthcare setting: hospital surgery scheduling. Using newly available … significant increase of hospital mortality among those who underwent surgeries on days with high particulate matter pollution … findings, we build and analyze a model of hospital surgery scheduling. For over a third of the high-risk surgeries, there …