example, U.S. antitrust agencies lost several hospital merger challenges when evidence showed that a nontrivial fraction of … estimate a random coefficients logit model of hospital demand and use the estimates to predict the increase in price that … even in suburban areas with high outflows of consumers, some hospital mergers could lead to significant price increases …

needy populations, nonprofit hospital mergers should be evaluated differently than mergers of for-profit hospitals. However …

, hospital services, and physician services. We will discuss the potential implications of the restructuring of the health care …

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 …

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart …

Using administrative data on over 4 million hospital visits, we document striking gender disparities within a … government health insurance program that entitles 46 million poor individuals to free hospital care in Rajasthan, India. Females … account for only 33% of hospital visits among children and 43% among the elderly. These shares are lower for more expensive …

that HICT improves clinical outcomes and lowers healthcare costs, but (i) the effects are modest so far, (ii) it takes time …, while healthcare is "exceptional" in many ways, we are struck by the similarities to the wider findings on ICT and …

Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital … behavior and performance. We open the "black box" of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains …