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 …

Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand … Medicare pneumonia patients in this market. We find that the mean valuation of amenities is positive and substantial. From the … patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …

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 …

.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and …

by horizontal hospital mergers as an instrument, we show that rising prices raise the cost of labor by increasing …

Between 2000 and 2020, the share of US hospital bed capacity under multi-unit firms (systems) increased from 58% to 81 … ownership affects hospital profitability and quality. We combine novel, patient-level transaction price data from a large … commercial insurer, Medicare claims, and New York hospital discharges between 2012 and 2018 to study changes at over 100 …

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

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 …