payment for skilled nursing facilities (SNF PPS) in geographic areas with high versus low levels of hospital/SNF integration …

structure is relevant in many applications. We develop the theory underlying optimal menus of non-linear schedules and prove …

, we find that both kinds of competition lower interest rates, at least in the hospital sector …

We study the consequences of hospital competition for Medicare beneficiaries' heart attack care from 1985 to 1994. We … examine how relatively exogenous determinants of hospital choice such as travel distances influence the competitiveness of … hospital markets, and how hospital competition interacts with the influence of managed care organizations to affect the key …

applied to health care: hospital mergers, monopsony, and foreclosure. In each of these sections we review the relevant …

Applying principles of merger evaluation to the health care industry in general, and to hospital markets in particular … suggest a new empirical approach to assessing the impact of hospital competition which addresses the shortcomings of existing … how our methods can be used to assess the welfare implications of specific hospital mergers, and with some implications of …

in the charity care supply equations. This raises the possibility that competitive pressures and limits on hospital …

positive income effects on charity care supply, convex preferences for the nonprofit hospital imply crowding out by other …