exogenous variation in Medicare payment rates generated by two policies under the Affordable Care Act: the Hospital Readmission … Reduction Program (HRRP) and the Hospital Value Based Purchasing (HVBP) program. We merge rich hospital-level information to … claim, or $82,000 per hospital, based on an average hospital penalty of nearly $146,000. We find the largest increases in …

-firms are incompletely understood. We exploit a historically large leveraged buyout of a national hospital chain to examine how … the full life cycle of PE influences hospital-level revenues, technology sourcing, labor use, and financial performance …. We find permanent improvements in hospital volumes and revenues. PE also reduces growth in full-time employees, with a …

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

mandated minimum levels of patients per nurse in the hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already had … acceptable staffing levels, while others had nurse staffing ratios that did not meet mandated standards. Thus changes in hospital …

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 …

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 …

results in the hospital ownership literature can be explained largely by differences in authors' underlying theoretical … combined estimates across studies suggest little difference in cost among all three types of hospital ownership, and that for …

The aim of this paper is to examine the determinants of interests rates on tax-exempt hospital bonds. The results … hospitals in states with relatively high income tax rates to issue debt. The Federal tax act of 1986 raised the cost of hospital … hospital should receive via its participation in tax-exempt markets, how this subsidy should vary among hospitals with …

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