We study a 2008 policy reform in which Medicare revised its hospital payment system to better reflect patients … using pre-reform patients and post-reform rules. The reform led to large persistent changes in Medicare payment rates across … hospitals. Hospitals that faced larger gains in Medicare reimbursement increased the volume of Medicare patients they treated …

providers respond. We investigate hospice programs' responses to a cap in the Medicare hospice benefit on their average annual … subsequent live discharges. On the extensive margin, we find that cap liabilities are associated with terminations of Medicare …

paid by traditional Medicare (TM), Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicaid, and private (under-65) insurers, and the differences …

We analyze Medicare Part D's net effect on elderly out-of-pocket (OOP) costs and use of prescription drugs using a …

The introduction of Medicare Part D has generated interest in the cost of providing drug coverage to the elderly. Of … use might have on other Medicare spending. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey … (MCBS) to estimate how prescription drug benefits affect Medicare spending. We compare spending and service use for Medigap …

before and after the establishment of the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS). Comparing persons above and below age 65 …