use detailed longitudinal monthly data on nursing units in the Veterans Administration hospital system to identify how the … human capital (general, hospital-specific and unit or team-specific) of the nursing team on the unit affects patients … positive and significant effects on patient outcomes while the use of contract nurses, who have less specific capital than …

This paper seeks to understand the impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program on hospital choice … and consumer welfare for rural residents. The Flex Program created a new class of hospital, the Critical Access Hospital …

of hospital IT adoption on patient outcomes focusing on the roles of technological and organizational complements in …Health information technology (IT) adoption, it is argued, will dramatically improve patient care. We study the impact … detailed hospital discharge data on all Medicare fee-for-service admissions from 2002-2007 to detailed hospital-level IT …

can attend an in-network hospital emergency department, but receive care and potentially a large, unexpected bill from an … out-of-network emergency physician working at that hospital. Because patients do not choose their emergency physician …, emergency physicians can remain out-of-network and charge high prices without losing patient volume. As we illustrate, this …

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

We evaluate whether hospital adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) leads to increases in billing where …

the beginning of a patient's stay before jumping discontinuously to a large lump-sum payment after a pre-specified number …

rates are reasonable measures of hospital quality as they consider the frequency of an event that occurs after a patient is … as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality … discharged and no longer under the watch and care of the hospital. Using a large dataset comprised of all hospital encounters of …

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 …