by horizontal hospital mergers as an instrument, we show that rising prices raise the cost of labor by increasing …

transport patients and have strong preferences for certain hospitals. Being admitted to a hospital with two standard deviations … hospital in a concentrated market increases spending but has no detectable effect on mortality …

In this article, we provide a comprehensive, empirical assessment of the hypothesis that the Hospital Readmissions … Reduction Program (HRRP) affected hospital readmissions. In doing so, we provide evidence as to the validity of prior empirical … little effect on hospital readmissions. This finding contrasts with the results of most prior studies, which report that the …

The growth of unionization among hospital workers was sharply accelerated by the 1974 amendments to the NLRA covering … voluntary hospital workers. With continuing inflationary pressures in the hospital sector, the cost implications of the recent … and projected growth of hospital unions is of some concern to policy-makers . This paper presents estimates of union cost …

availability of hospital services. This paper presents data for the country as a whole on hospital utilization during the post … structural equations and hypotheses as to why the measures of hospital utilization vary across communities, and to estimate these …

design to examine effects of the expansion on health insurance coverage, hospital use, and patient health. We then link these … changes to effects on hospital finances. We show that a substantial share of the federally-funded Medicaid expansion … hospital revenue and profitability, with larger gains for government hospitals. On the benefits side, we do not detect …

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

that countervailing market power is important: a typical hospital merger would raise hospital prices 4.3% at the 25th …, antitrust policy is opaque about whether to incorporate countervailing market power in merger analyses. We use detailed national … of market power. We estimate willingness-to-pay models to evaluate hospital market power across analysis areas. We find …

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 …

decompose the joint contribution of quality and unobserved productivity to hospital costs, relying on heterogeneous tastes among … the 75th percentile would increase costs at the average hospital by nearly fifty percent. Improvements in traditional … metrics of hospital quality such as risk-adjusted mortality are more modest, indicating that other factors such as amenities …