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

relatively better health. Despite the large financial incentives and behavioral response in a high mortality population, we are … highlight how improved financial incentives may be able to reduce healthcare spending, without negative consequences for …

Medicare spending in 2014. We use the entry of LTCHs into local hospital markets and an event study design to estimate LTCHs …

financial health affect different aspects of hospital operation. In our study, we analyze this issue focusing on hospital access … account both hospital's current and past financial health as well as their expected financial outlook (i.e., whether there is …Given an increasingly complex web of financial pressures on providers, studies have examined how the hospitals' overall …

substantial quot;offsetquot; effects in terms of increased hospital utilization in response to the combination of higher …

We evaluate whether hospital adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) leads to increases in billing where … financial gains are large or where hassle costs of complete coding are low. The 2007 Medicare payment reform varied both … financial incentives and hassle costs of coding. We find no significant impact of financial incentives on billing levels …

for diseases with the greatest profitability and demand elasticity. Most empirical evidence regarding hospital competition … – ambulances usually take patients to the closest (or affiliated) hospital. In this paper, we derive a theoretically appropriate ….S. regional hospital markets to instrument for market concentration. We then estimate the model using risk-adjusted Medicare data …