Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network, or system reduce the set of possible reproductive …

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 …

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 …

Patients who receive more hospital treatment tend to have worse underlying health, confounding estimates of the returns … to such care. This paper compares the costs and benefits of extending the length of hospital stay following delivery … entitle newborns to a minimum number of hospital quot;days,quot; counted as the number of midnights in care. A newborn …

relatively healthy patients, leaving (predominantly nonprofit) general hospitals with a less-remunerative, sicker patient … population. We find support for both sides of this debate. Markets experiencing entry by a cardiac specialty hospital have lower … spending for cardiac care without significantly worse clinical outcomes. In markets with a specialty hospital, however …

compare hospital performance for emergency patients: plausibly exogenous variation in ambulance-company assignment. Ambulances … data from 2002-2008, we show that ambulance company assignment importantly affects hospital choice for patients in the same … are effectively randomly assigned to patients in the same area based on rotational dispatch mechanisms. Using Medicare …

, we infer quality at hospitals in greater Los Angeles from the revealed preference of pneumonia patients. We then … decompose the joint contribution of quality and unobserved productivity to hospital costs, relying on heterogeneous tastes among … patients for plausibly exogenous quality variation. We find that more productive hospitals provide higher quality …

High and increasing hospital prices have led to calls for price regulation. If prices are high because of consolidation …'s predictions across numerous quality measures including patient satisfaction, hospital processes, risk adjusted mortality, the … revealed preferences of current Medicare patients, technology adoption, physician quality, and ED wait times …

– ambulances usually take patients to the closest (or affiliated) hospital. In this paper, we derive a theoretically appropriate … for diseases with the greatest profitability and demand elasticity. Most empirical evidence regarding hospital competition ….S. regional hospital markets to instrument for market concentration. We then estimate the model using risk-adjusted Medicare data …

changes in hospital costs. I exploit an exogenous 1988 policy change that generated large price changes for 43 percent of all … Medicare admissions. I find that hospitals responded to these price changes by upcoding' patients to diagnosis codes associated … volume of patients admitted to more remunerative diagnoses, notwithstanding the strong a priori expectation that such a …