The aim of this paper is to examine the determinants of interests rates on tax-exempt hospital bonds. The results … hospitals in states with relatively high income tax rates to issue debt. The Federal tax act of 1986 raised the cost of hospital … hospital should receive via its participation in tax-exempt markets, how this subsidy should vary among hospitals with …

Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand … patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …-standard-deviation increase in amenities raises a hospital's demand by 38.4% on average, whereas demand is substantially less responsive to …

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 …

for surgical ones. We further use a 2008 policy where Medicare implemented financial penalties for certain hospital …

or service, but are bundled by a common intermediary. Focusing on hospital mergers across distinct geographic markets, we … higher prices (or lower-quality care). Using data on hospital mergers from 1996-2012, we find support that this mechanism … operates within state boundaries: cross-market, within-state hospital mergers yield price increases of 7-9 percent for …

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

Hospital payment regulation has historically been introduced to meet multiple policy objectives. The primary objective …