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 …

In this paper, we estimate how hospital ownership of physicians' practices affects their patients' hospital choices. We … match data on the hospital admissions of Medicare beneficiaries, including the identity of their admitting physician, with … data on the identity of the owner of the admitting physician's practice. We find that a hospital's ownership of an …

We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births … in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and … plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects (capturing hospital quality). We use an inequality estimator that allows …

decompose the joint contribution of quality and unobserved productivity to hospital costs, relying on heterogeneous tastes among … the 75th percentile would increase costs at the average hospital by nearly fifty percent. Improvements in traditional … metrics of hospital quality such as risk-adjusted mortality are more modest, indicating that other factors such as amenities …

The recent rise of specialty hospitals -- typically for-profit firms that are at least partially owned by physicians … population. We find support for both sides of this debate. Markets experiencing entry by a cardiac specialty hospital have lower … spending for cardiac care without significantly worse clinical outcomes. In markets with a specialty hospital, however …

. Those treated by physicians from the higher-ranked institution have 10-25% shorter and less expensive stays than patients … are precise. Procedure differences across the teams are consistent with the ability of physicians in the lower …-ranked institution to substitute time and diagnostic tests for the faster judgments of physicians from the top-ranked institution …

payment for skilled nursing facilities (SNF PPS) in geographic areas with high versus low levels of hospital/SNF integration …. We find that SNF PPS decreased spending more in high integration areas, with no measurable consequences for patient …

hospital beds. Utilized capacity in the hospital industry, as measured by the inpatient hospital bed occupancy rate, has … which will penalize hospitals with low occupancy rates. We estimate a short run cost function for a hospital facing … strongly rejected in favor of the reformulated model. We calculate the cost of an empty hospital bed as $61,395 in 1987 dollars …