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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …