We examine the recent increase in hospital advertising expenditures. We first illustrate that the rise in hospital … relationship between increases in for-profit presence in hospital markets and an increase in advertising spending by the not … advertising has not been universal. Large, not-for-profit, teaching hospitals have, by far, experienced the largest increase in …

This study assessed the effect of hospital competition and HMO penetration on mortality after hospitalization for six … medical conditions in California, New York, and Wisconsin. We used linked hospital discharge and vital statistics data to … and hospital competition, HMO penetration, and hospital and patient characteristics as explanatory variables. Higher …

connection between selection and moral hazard in star hospital use …

whether patients discharged to hospital-based SNFs have better outcomes. In unadjusted comparisons, hospital-based SNF … solved the problem of differential selection into hospital-based and freestanding SNFs by using differential distance from … home to the nearest hospital with a SNF relative to the distance from home to the nearest hospital without a SNF as an …

the provision of charity care. We examine this issue using data on all hospital discharges in California between 1988 and …'s charity caseload. However, these public hospitals also take on larger shares of most other types of patients. At the hospital …

investigates the causes and welfare effects of the observed hospital networks. A simple profit maximization model explains roughly …

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 …