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 …

policymakers and hospital administrators to monitor financial distress in real-time when case mixes change, or other large shocks …

understood about broader implications. We examine over 100 rural hospital closures spanning 2005-2017 to quantify the effects on … affected, and housing markets were already depressed prior to hospital closures …

Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital … behavior and performance. We open the "black box" of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains …

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 …

We examine the impacts of physician-hospital integration on care fragmentation and other measures of care … exploit the fact that physician-hospital integration levels vary dramatically across MSA and focus on orthogonal employment …

same hospital to control for practice setting. Event studies show that internists who join more-intensive groups …

High and increasing hospital prices have led to calls for price regulation. If prices are high because of consolidation …'s predictions across numerous quality measures including patient satisfaction, hospital processes, risk adjusted mortality, the …