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 …

hospital admission (that is, via the ED), implying that the entire change in ED use by movers is driven by ED visits that do … not lead to hospital admission. Similar results are obtained in a complementary event study, which uses hospital entry as …

can attend an in-network hospital, but receive care from an out-of-network physician. Because patients do not choose their …

stock market collapse. We find that the average hospital did not engage in cost-shifting, but average hospitals that likely …

transport patients and have strong preferences for certain hospitals. Being admitted to a hospital with two standard deviations … hospital in a concentrated market increases spending but has no detectable effect on mortality …

In this article, we provide a comprehensive, empirical assessment of the hypothesis that the Hospital Readmissions … Reduction Program (HRRP) affected hospital readmissions. In doing so, we provide evidence as to the validity of prior empirical … little effect on hospital readmissions. This finding contrasts with the results of most prior studies, which report that the …

The growth of unionization among hospital workers was sharply accelerated by the 1974 amendments to the NLRA covering … voluntary hospital workers. With continuing inflationary pressures in the hospital sector, the cost implications of the recent … and projected growth of hospital unions is of some concern to policy-makers . This paper presents estimates of union cost …

availability of hospital services. This paper presents data for the country as a whole on hospital utilization during the post … structural equations and hypotheses as to why the measures of hospital utilization vary across communities, and to estimate these …

design to examine effects of the expansion on health insurance coverage, hospital use, and patient health. We then link these … changes to effects on hospital finances. We show that a substantial share of the federally-funded Medicaid expansion … hospital revenue and profitability, with larger gains for government hospitals. On the benefits side, we do not detect …