in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and …We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births … plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects (capturing hospital quality). We use an inequality estimator that allows …

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 …

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

increase costs. We illustrate our argument with examples taken from the insurance and the hospital industries, and discuss …

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 …

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 …

bans are not associated with statistically significant short-term declines in mortality or hospital admissions for …

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