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 …We analyze whether receiving care from higher-priced hospitals leads to lower mortality. We overcome selection issues …

In this article, we provide a comprehensive, empirical assessment of the hypothesis that the Hospital Readmissions … Reduction Program (HRRP) affected hospital readmissions. In doing so, we provide evidence as to the validity of prior empirical … little effect on hospital readmissions. This finding contrasts with the results of most prior studies, which report that the …

suggest the effects are more pronounced among children raised in farm households, females, and those with lower maternal …

-monotonically with parental income, and that children of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution have higher rates of low … birth weight and preterm birth than those in the bottom ventile. However, unlike birth outcomes, infant mortality varies … between income and maternal mortality. At the same time, these disparities by parental income are small when compared to …

Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand … Medicare pneumonia patients in this market. We find that the mean valuation of amenities is positive and substantial. From the … patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …

We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births … in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and … plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects (capturing hospital quality). We use an inequality estimator that allows …

relatively more top bill codes from secondary diagnoses after the reform, exclusively for medical patients, with a negative … effect for surgical patients. This is consistent with EMRs lowering coding costs for medical discharges but increasing them … for surgical ones. We further use a 2008 policy where Medicare implemented financial penalties for certain hospital …

to obtain Sleep discounts off list prices from providers. I study hospital responses to the advent of price competition … in California over the 1984-1988 period. I note that, due to the nature of hospital bargaining with PPOs, hospitals … should face more competitive pressure in hospital markets that arc more competitive ex-ante. This hypothesis is supported by …

This study assessed the effect of hospital competition and HMO penetration on mortality after hospitalization for six … hospital competition was associated with lower mortality in California and New York, but not Wisconsin. In addition, higher HMO … medical conditions in California, New York, and Wisconsin. We used linked hospital discharge and vital statistics data to …

We examine whether obtaining prescription drug insurance through the Medicare Part D program affected hospital … admissions, expenditures associated with those admissions, and mortality. We use a large, geographically diverse sample of … drug insurance on hospitalizations and mortality. Results indicate that obtaining prescription drug insurance through …