Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand … patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …-standard-deviation increase in amenities raises a hospital's demand by 38.4% on average, whereas demand is substantially less responsive to …

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

Hospital payment regulation has historically been introduced to meet multiple policy objectives. The primary objective …

by horizontal hospital mergers as an instrument, we show that rising prices raise the cost of labor by increasing …

Between 2000 and 2020, the share of US hospital bed capacity under multi-unit firms (systems) increased from 58% to 81 … ownership affects hospital profitability and quality. We combine novel, patient-level transaction price data from a large … commercial insurer, Medicare claims, and New York hospital discharges between 2012 and 2018 to study changes at over 100 …

decompose the joint contribution of quality and unobserved productivity to hospital costs, relying on heterogeneous tastes among … the 75th percentile would increase costs at the average hospital by nearly fifty percent. Improvements in traditional … metrics of hospital quality such as risk-adjusted mortality are more modest, indicating that other factors such as amenities …

population. We find support for both sides of this debate. Markets experiencing entry by a cardiac specialty hospital have lower … spending for cardiac care without significantly worse clinical outcomes. In markets with a specialty hospital, however …

financial health affect different aspects of hospital operation. In our study, we analyze this issue focusing on hospital access … account both hospital's current and past financial health as well as their expected financial outlook (i.e., whether there is …