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 …

trace out the effects of greater managed care penetration on hospital utilization and spending throughout the health care … system. We find that when more seniors enroll in Medicare managed care, hospital costs decline for all seniors and for …

managed care enrollment significantly reduces hospital cost growth. While some of this effect is offset by increased spending … on physicians, we generally find a significant reduction in total spending as well. In analyzing the sources of hospital …

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 …

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 …

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 …