. Those treated by physicians from the higher-ranked institution have 10-25% shorter and less expensive stays than patients … are precise. Procedure differences across the teams are consistent with the ability of physicians in the lower …-ranked institution to substitute time and diagnostic tests for the faster judgments of physicians from the top-ranked institution …

Medicaid expansion on a hospital's incentive to invest in technology. Using American Hospital Association data, we find that on …

Non-primary care physicians earn considerably more than primary care physicians in the United States. I examine a … may be creating an economic shortage of non-primary care physicians. I estimate that medical students would be willing to …

outpatient and inpatient care. Our results indicate that greater outpatient spending was associated with more hospital admissions … increase in hospital admissions associated with greater outpatient spending was for conditions in which it is plausible to …

In this paper, we estimate how hospital ownership of physicians' practices affects their patients' hospital choices. We … match data on the hospital admissions of Medicare beneficiaries, including the identity of their admitting physician, with … data on the identity of the owner of the admitting physician's practice. We find that a hospital's ownership of an …

of physician input is utilized. Since no data on the total number of hours worked by non-salaried physicians is available …

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 …

There is considerable evidence that patients that are treated by high volume physicians and hospitals have better … health outcomes than patients treated by low volume physicians and hospitals. Thus, as an indirect measure of quality …