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

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 …

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

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

We examine whether obtaining prescription drug insurance through the Medicare Part D program affected hospital … Medicare Part D was associated with an 8% decrease in the number of hospital admissions, a 7% decrease in Medicare expenditures …

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 …

stock market collapse. We find that the average hospital did not engage in cost-shifting, but average hospitals that likely …