: consumer surplus from a hospital demand system and the fraction of population hospital admissions that would be covered by the …

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 …

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

We examine some economic impacts of hospital admissions using an event study approach in two datasets: survey data from … the Health and Retirement Study, and hospital admissions data linked to consumer credit reports. We report estimates of … the impact of hospital admissions on out-of-pocket medical spending, unpaid medical bills, bankruptcy, earnings, income …

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 …

Patients who receive more hospital treatment tend to have worse underlying health, confounding estimates of the returns … to such care. This paper compares the costs and benefits of extending the length of hospital stay following delivery … entitle newborns to a minimum number of hospital "days," counted as the number of midnights in care. A newborn delivered at 12 …

connection between selection and moral hazard in star hospital use …