. For patients with diagnoses of Pneumonia or Acute Myocardial Infarction, an additional day in the hospital could decrease … reducing mortality rates far exceed the cost of keeping these patients in the hospital for an additional day … as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality …

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart … accurately estimate and forecast each provider's quality level. For patients with heart disease, the method is able to predict …

discrimination using observational data. We focus our inquiry on the enormous literature in healthcare where treatment disparities by … outcomes: for patients with the same propensity to be treated, prejudice implies a higher return from treatment for treated …

health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical opportunities for measuring such outcomes …

cream skimming, i.e., choosing patients for some characteristic(s) other than their need for care, which enhances the … estimates of hospital ownership type consist of the impact of differential patient case mix (selection) and hospital cost … likely to treat high-cost patients than not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals, showing no evidence that FP hospitals engage in cream …

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the United States healthcare system, resulting in major disruptions in … practices. There is little empirical evidence on the types of policies or innovations that are effective in shaping healthcare … reveals that children are significantly less likely to delay or skip healthcare delayed as a result of the availability of …

We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that … patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in … within-area matching. We find that physicians vary greatly in the intensity with which they treat otherwise similar patients …

compliance with patient safety measures in both public and private facilities (more so in the latter) and reallocated patients …

-off between patients treated and time spent with each patient, which we treat as a proxy for a quality v. quantity decision. We …