human capital (general, hospital-specific and unit or team-specific) of the nursing team on the unit affects patients … use detailed longitudinal monthly data on nursing units in the Veterans Administration hospital system to identify how the …

Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand … Medicare pneumonia patients in this market. We find that the mean valuation of amenities is positive and substantial. From the … patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …

. For patients with diagnoses of Pneumonia or Acute Myocardial Infarction, an additional day in the hospital could decrease … reducing mortality rates far exceed the cost of keeping these patients in the hospital for an additional day … as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality …

This paper seeks to understand the impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program on hospital choice … and consumer welfare for rural residents. The Flex Program created a new class of hospital, the Critical Access Hospital …

of hospital IT adoption on patient outcomes focusing on the roles of technological and organizational complements in … detailed hospital discharge data on all Medicare fee-for-service admissions from 2002-2007 to detailed hospital-level IT … sensitive conditions we find that health IT adoption reduces mortality for the most complex patients but does not affect …

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

We evaluate whether hospital adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) leads to increases in billing where … patients at EMR hospitals, consistent with EMRs decreasing coding costs for medical patients. Greater post-reform completeness …

of days. We show that LTCHs respond to financial incentives by disproportionately discharging patients after they cross … the large-payment threshold, resulting in worse outcomes for patients. We find this occurs more often at for … adversely affecting patients …

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

the structure of liability rules in the Military Heath System. Active-duty patients seeking treatment from military … facilities and to all patients—active-duty or not—that receive care from civilian facilities. Drawing on this variation and … exploiting exogenous shocks to care location choices stemming from base-hospital closures, we find suggestive evidence that …