link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy …

We measure one aspect of how access to emergency care through ambulance services changes for patients when a hospital … period immediately after the hospital closes. We find urban patients in zip codes where a hospital closes have a small change … to transport a patient from the location of the incident to the hospital. The impact on rural Medicare-eligible patients …

birth in hospitals participating in the program is an increasing function of expected hospital demand at the time of the …

for white mothers. At childbirth, heat-exposed mothers are more likely to have hypertension and have longer hospital stays …. For infants, fetal exposure to extreme heat leads to a higher likelihood of dehydration at birth and hospital readmission …

The present paper provides new evidence that hospital delivery can significantly lower child mortality risks … 2005 (that enhanced emergency obstetric care in women friendly environment) to identify the causal effect of hospital … welfare clinic boosts hospital delivery likelihood, which in turn tends to lower neo-natal, early and infant mortality rates …

increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …

.4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital admissions from Germany over one decade, we do …