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

air pollution shock mitigation in a high-stakes healthcare setting: hospital surgery scheduling. Using newly available … findings, we build and analyze a model of hospital surgery scheduling. For over a third of the high-risk surgeries, there … inpatient surgery records from a major city in China, we track post-surgery survival for over 1 million patients, and document a …

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

Using administrative data on over 4 million hospital visits, we document striking gender disparities within a … government health insurance program that entitles 46 million poor individuals to free hospital care in Rajasthan, India. Females … account for only 33% of hospital visits among children and 43% among the elderly. These shares are lower for more expensive …

that HICT improves clinical outcomes and lowers healthcare costs, but (i) the effects are modest so far, (ii) it takes time …, while healthcare is "exceptional" in many ways, we are struck by the similarities to the wider findings on ICT and …

Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital … behavior and performance. We open the "black box" of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains …