compliance with patient safety measures in both public and private facilities (more so in the latter) and reallocated patients …

trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find …

increase costs. We illustrate our argument with examples taken from the insurance and the hospital industries, and discuss …

surgical procedure. We find substantial impacts of the removal of restrictions. Patients became more responsive to clinical … quality. Sicker patients and better informed patients were more affected. We leverage our model to calculate potential …

patients, providers and the economy. We find strong evidence that the ACA's provisions have increased insurance coverage. There …

exogenous variation in Medicare payment rates generated by two policies under the Affordable Care Act: the Hospital Readmission … Reduction Program (HRRP) and the Hospital Value Based Purchasing (HVBP) program. We merge rich hospital-level information to … claim, or $82,000 per hospital, based on an average hospital penalty of nearly $146,000. We find the largest increases in …

despite the change in reimbursement composition of patients …