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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 …
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This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. We find negative effects of unionization on staffing levels and no decline in care quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects....
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methodology for estimating the causal relationship between hospital quality measures and patient outcomes. To compare similar …-scoring hospital results in better patient outcomes. We estimate that a two-standard deviation improvement in a composite quality …
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Previous research found that the initiation of Hospital Compare (HC) quality reporting had little impact on patient … outcomes. However little is known about its impact on hospital prices, which may be significant since insurers are positioned …
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for diseases with the greatest profitability and demand elasticity. Most empirical evidence regarding hospital competition … - ambulances usually take patients to the closest (or affiliated) hospital. In this paper, we derive a theoretically appropriate ….S. regional hospital markets to instrument for market concentration. We then estimate the model using risk-adjusted Medicare data …
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whether patients discharged to hospital-based SNFs have better outcomes. In unadjusted comparisons, hospital-based SNF … solved the problem of differential selection into hospital-based and freestanding SNFs by using differential distance from … home to the nearest hospital with a SNF relative to the distance from home to the nearest hospital without a SNF as an …
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this effort is the Hospital Value-based Purchasing Program (HVBP), which rewards or penalizes hospitals based on their … quality and episode-based costs of care. Within HVBP, each patient affects hospital performance on a variety of quality and … spending measures, and performance translates directly to changes in program points and ultimately dollars. In short, hospital …
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The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service to assess the impact of relaxing constraints on patient choice. We estimate a demand model to evaluate whether increased choice increased demand elasticity faced by hospitals...
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compare hospital performance for emergency patients: plausibly exogenous variation in ambulance-company assignment. Ambulances … data from 2002-2008, we show that ambulance company assignment importantly affects hospital choice for patients in the same … zip code. Using data for New York state from 2000-2006 that matches exact patient addresses to hospital discharge records …
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this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting …
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