available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart …

We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use … receives care, hospital care is highly effective, and hospital quality has been validated. We report four facts. (1) Black … patients receive care at lower-performing hospitals than white patients, even when they live in the same hospital market or ZIP …

The United States has recently seen a large increase in hospital mergers and acquisitions, and Catholic hospital … mergers between Catholic and non-Catholic systems since 1997. Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network … to Catholic (and vice versa) on reproductive health procedures that are likely to be affected. Using hospital …

patients who have greater scope for hospital choice, suggesting a role for patient demand in allocation in the hospital sector …

market shares at a point in time and are more likely to expand over time. For example, a 10 percent increase in hospital …

first to use hospital data to examine the impact of this legislation on insurance coverage, utilization patterns, and … hospital discharges in Massachusetts, the reform decreased uninsurance by 36% relative to its initial level. We also find that … hospital level and find that hospital cost growth did not increase after the reform in Massachusetts relative to other states …