two-thirds of the cross-hospital variation in ICD use. A dynamic version of the model with learning about bias predicts …

Medicaid expansion on a hospital's incentive to invest in technology. Using American Hospital Association data, we find that on …

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. In this paper, we explore how … access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a combination of novel data and a unique … quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke Endowment in the early twentieth …

billing data that do not reflect actual payments made. Although the responsiveness of prices to hospital performance depends … assumed that higher performing hospitals are able to command higher prices. To test this hypothesis we construct performance … rankings, based on hospital excess-mortality and incorporate them into our price models. We are interested in the type …

we do not know whether hospital quality indicators are causal or biased. We evaluate the validity of commonly used … where hospital closures reallocate large numbers of patients to hospitals of different quality. This setting allows us to … measure whether patient outcomes improve as much as quality indicators predict when a relatively low-quality hospital closes …

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart …

applied to health care: hospital mergers, monopsony, and foreclosure. In each of these sections we review the relevant …