billing data that do not reflect actual payments made. Although the responsiveness of prices to hospital performance depends … rankings, based on hospital excess-mortality and incorporate them into our price models. We are interested in the type … the widely-reported risk-adjustment methodology used in the federal Hospital Compare reporting system for ranking cardiac …

,025 admissions to the faculty and community services of a university hospital, measuring differences in case mix, costs, and outcomes … percent) for patients with a predicted probability of death (DTHRISK) of .25 or greater.The in-hospital mortality rate was … of 51 pairs of admissions from the high death risk category confirmed the above results with respect to costs and in-hospital …

infarction. Data sources include 100% Medicare Provider Analysis and Review, AHA hospital annual surveys, Medicare hospital cost …

the hospital industry, where the courts have denied seven of eight merger challenges since 1994, due largely to … previously employed methods overstate hospital demand elasticities by a factor of 2.4 to 3.4 and define larger markets than would … environment for hospital mergers …

We investigate the effect of therapeutic procedure innovation in general on the longevity of all hospital patients, i … patient-level data indicate that therapeutic procedure innovation increased the life expectancy of WA hospital patients by … (over 400 postcodes), year of hospital admission, and number of procedures performed.. Estimates based on longitudinal DRG …

this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting …

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