I exploit a plausibly exogenous change in hospital financial incentives to examine whether the behavior of private not …

infer returns from hospital entry behavior. We estimate a model of patient flows for CABG patients that provides inputs for …

outcome variables are the risk-adjusted hospital mortality rates for pneumonia (estimated by the authors) and acute myocardial … infarction (reported by the state of California). Measures of competition are constructed for each hospital and payer type. The … of competition for HMO patients decrease risk-adjusted hospital mortality rates. Conversely, increases in competition for …

terms of increased access to hospital care for newly eligible children, so that there is an overall 10% rise in child …

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 …