can attend an in-network hospital emergency department, but receive care and potentially a large, unexpected bill from an … out-of-network emergency physician working at that hospital. Because patients do not choose their emergency physician …

We examine the evolving structure of the U.S. hospital industry since 1970, focusing on how ownership form influences … hospital chain significantly decreases the probability of exit for for-profits, but not not-for-profits …

This paper examines the shift in childbirth from home to hospital that occurred in the United States in the early … hospital and analyze the impact of medical care on maternal mortality. Results suggest that increased operative intervention on …

market shares at a point in time and are more likely to expand over time. For example, a 10 percent increase in hospital …

discharge have poorer outcomes, as well as higher downstream spending once conditioning on initial hospital spending …

patients who have greater scope for hospital choice, suggesting a role for patient demand in allocation in the hospital sector …

High and increasing hospital prices have led to calls for price regulation. If prices are high because of consolidation …'s predictions across numerous quality measures including patient satisfaction, hospital processes, risk adjusted mortality, the …

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 …