for surgical ones. We further use a 2008 policy where Medicare implemented financial penalties for certain hospital …

substantial "offset" effects in terms of increased hospital utilization in response to the combination of higher copayments for …

changes in hospital costs. I exploit an exogenous 1988 policy change that generated large price changes for 43 percent of all …

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 …

connection between selection and moral hazard in star hospital use …

hospitals. We construct indices of health plan generosity and the price and volume of hospital services using data from Truven … generosity facilitates the exercise of hospital market power, IV estimates show a statistically significant and economically … important positive effect of plan generosity on hospital prices in uncompetitive markets, but not in competitive markets. Our …

hospital financial data to study the resulting uncompensated care, medical care for which no payment is received. We use both … person costs local hospitals $900 each year in uncompensated care. Similarly, the closure of a nearby hospital increases the … uncompensated care costs of remaining hospitals. Increases in the uninsured population also lower hospital profit margins, which …

hospital-insurer bargaining over premiums and reimbursements, household demand for insurance, and individual demand for … with the remaining insurers. We also document substantial heterogeneity in hospital price adjustments upon the removal of …

private hospital capacity is vertically integrated, integration increases inpatient care spending by 6 percent and decreases … to high-quality non-integrated hospitals, resulting in plan networks that limit hospital competition. Whereas vertical … integration reduces double marginalization, skewed cost-sharing structures--and their effect on hospital competition--more than …