The article analyzes to which extent residential proximity from an emergency hospital affects the probability of … endogenous health-based spatial sorting of involved agents and data limitations on out-of-hospital mortality. Using policy …-induced variation in hospital distance, arising from plausibly exogenous emergency hospital closures in the highly regulated Swedish …

urban-rural gap in public infrastructure. Leftwing governments relocate hospital beds from rural regions. We propose that … leftwing governments do so to gratify their more urban constituencies. In turn, spatial inequalities in hospital infrastructure …

benchmark the unit costs of hospital services in public providers in Jordan to provide insights into the outlook for public … health care costs. Methods: The unit costs of hospital services per admission, inpatient days, outpatient visits, emergency …

, cross-sectional study of clinical and financial records for all ED visits to an urban, academic hospital in 2001 …, hospital inpatient length of stay, payment method, costs, and demographics. Results: Patients with three to 20 visits were more … likely to be admitted to the hospital than patients visiting once or twice. Patients visiting more than 20 times were less …

literature focuses on upcoding/no upcoding for inpatient hospital care inMedicare Part A, where reimbursements requested are … from 2013 – 2019, only 0.39% were for upcoding of hospital admissions, or 7.2% of all prosecutions for hospitals. Other … forms of improper billing/fraud constituted more than 90% of all cases, both for hospital admissions and for Medicare Part B …