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 …

in California over the 1984-1988 period. I note that, due to the nature of hospital bargaining with PPOs, hospitals … the fact that hospital net prices declined in more ex-ante competitive areas in California after the arrival of PPOs … to obtain Sleep discounts off list prices from providers. I study hospital responses to the advent of price competition …

The growth of unionization among hospital workers was sharply accelerated by the 1974 amendments to the NLRA covering … voluntary hospital workers. With continuing inflationary pressures in the hospital sector, the cost implications of the recent … and projected growth of hospital unions is of some concern to policy-makers . This paper presents estimates of union cost …

availability of hospital services. This paper presents data for the country as a whole on hospital utilization during the post … structural equations and hypotheses as to why the measures of hospital utilization vary across communities, and to estimate these …

design to examine effects of the expansion on health insurance coverage, hospital use, and patient health. We then link these … changes to effects on hospital finances. We show that a substantial share of the federally-funded Medicaid expansion … hospital revenue and profitability, with larger gains for government hospitals. On the benefits side, we do not detect …

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

that countervailing market power is important: a typical hospital merger would raise hospital prices 4.3% at the 25th …, antitrust policy is opaque about whether to incorporate countervailing market power in merger analyses. We use detailed national … of market power. We estimate willingness-to-pay models to evaluate hospital market power across analysis areas. We find …

The United States has recently seen a large increase in hospital mergers and acquisitions, and Catholic hospital … mergers between Catholic and non-Catholic systems since 1997. Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network … to Catholic (and vice versa) on reproductive health procedures that are likely to be affected. Using hospital …

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