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Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2011

Long-term care expenditures constitute one of the largest uninsured financial risks facing the elderly in the United States. This paper provides an overview of the economic and policy issues surrounding insuring long-term care expenditure risk. Through this lens we also discuss the likely impact...

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Competition in Health Care Markets

Gaynor, Martin - 2011

This paper reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done in this area over the last 10 years. In addition, there has been increasing...

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Health Information Technology and Patient Outcomes : The Role of Organizational and Informational Complementarities

McCullough, Jeffrey - 2013

Health information technology (IT) adoption, it is argued, will dramatically improve patient care. We study the impact of hospital IT adoption on patient outcomes focusing on the roles of technological and organizational complements in affecting IT's value and explore underlying mechanisms...

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Integration and Task Allocation : Evidence from Patient Care

David, Guy - 2013

We develop a formal model to show how integration solves task allocation problems between organizations and test the predictions of the model, using a large and rich patient-level dataset on hospital discharges to nursing homes and home health care. As predicted by the theory, we find that...

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Provider Incentives and Healthcare Costs : Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals

Einav, Liran - 2017

We study the design of provider incentives in the post-acute care setting – a high-stakes but under-studied segment of the healthcare system. We focus on long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) and the large (approximately $13,000) jump in Medicare payments they receive when a patient's stay reaches...

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Long-Term Care Insurance : Knowledge Barriers, Risk Perception and Adverse Selection

Boyer, M. Martin - 2020

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Individuals' Use of Care While Uninsured : Effects of Time Since Episode Inception and Episode Length

Gresenz, Carole R. - 2007

Few studies have addressed how use of care may vary over the course of an episode of being uninsured or across uninsured episodes of varying duration. This research models the probability that an uninsured individual has (a) any medical expenditures or charges, and (b) any office-based visit...

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Nursing Home Quality as a Public Good

Grabowski, David C. - 2006

There has been much debate among economists about whether nursing home quality is a public good across Medicaid and … across states with different Medicaid and private-pay rate differentials. Across our various identification strategies, the …, there is very little evidence to suggest that Medicaid-funded residents receive consistently lower quality care relative to …

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Efficiency in Family Bargaining : Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents

Pezzin, Liliana E. - 2006

In this paper, we use a two-stage bargaining model to analyze the living arrangement of a disabled elderly parent and the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent can live in a nursing home, live alone in the...

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Long-Term Care Hospitals : A Case Study in Waste

Einav, Liran - 2018

There is substantial waste in U.S. healthcare, but little consensus on how to identify or combat it. We identify one specific source of waste: long-term care hospitals (LTCHs). These post-acute care facilities began as a regulatory carve-out for a few dozen specialty hospitals, but have expanded...

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