Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand …. We use a marketing survey to measure amenities at hospitals in greater Los Angeles and analyze the choice behavior of … Medicare pneumonia patients in this market. We find that the mean valuation of amenities is positive and substantial. From the …

Given an increasingly complex web of financial pressures on providers, studies have examined how the hospitals' overall … financial health affect different aspects of hospital operation. In our study, we analyze this issue focusing on hospital access … account both hospital's current and past financial health as well as their expected financial outlook (i.e., whether there is …

Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network, or system reduce the set of possible reproductive … medical procedures since Catholic hospitals have strict prohibitions on contraception. Using changes in ownership of hospitals …, we find that Catholic hospitals reduce the per bed rates of tubal ligations by 31%, whereas there is no significant …

. For patients with diagnoses of Pneumonia or Acute Myocardial Infarction, an additional day in the hospital could decrease … reducing mortality rates far exceed the cost of keeping these patients in the hospital for an additional day … as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality …

the large-payment threshold, resulting in worse outcomes for patients. We find this occurs more often at for-profit …Medicare's prospective payment system for long-term acute-care hospitals (LTCHs) pro- vides modest reimbursements at … of days. We show that LTCHs respond to financial incentives by disproportionately discharging patients after they cross …

mandated minimum levels of patients per nurse in the hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already had …Hospitals are currently under pressure to control the cost of medical care, while at the same time improving patient … health outcomes. These twin concerns are at play in an important and contentious decision facing hospitals …

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 …

between hospitals. Patients were given choice of location for hospital care and provided information on the quality and … approximately 68,000 discharges per year per hospital from 162 hospitals. We find that the effect of competition is to save lives … without raising costs. Patients discharged from hospitals located in markets where competition was more feasible were less …

outcomes: for patients with the same propensity to be treated, prejudice implies a higher return from treatment for treated …

reasons that may not be in patients' best interests. Optimal Medicare reimbursement policy depends upon the extent to which … payment for skilled nursing facilities (SNF PPS) in geographic areas with high versus low levels of hospital/SNF integration …