This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment …

costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number of hospitals. With semi-altruistic providers and a fairly general cost …

comprehensive database that covers more than 2,000 hospitals nationwide from 1996 to 2017. We employ a flexible generalized … the impacts on negotiated prices and costs. We also find large heterogeneous responses across hospitals that depend on: (1 …) hospitals’ past charge prices prior to adopting the price transparency law, that is, high-price hospitals reduce charge and …

Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We … increased their count of hospitals by 8-10 percent in the years after the pandemic. This effect persisted to 1960 and was driven … by increases in non-governmental hospitals. Growth responded most in richer cities, exacerbating existing inequalities in …

medicine in contemporary society, little is known about how hospitals and modern medicine contributed to this health transition … Endowment in the early twentieth century. The Endowment helped communities build and expand hospitals, obtain state …. We further provide evidence on the mechanisms that enabled these effects, finding that Endowment-supported hospitals …

This study investigates hospitals' dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …