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 …

air pollution shock mitigation in a high-stakes healthcare setting: hospital surgery scheduling. Using newly available … inpatient surgery records from a major city in China, we track post-surgery survival for over 1 million patients, and document a … significant increase of hospital mortality among those who underwent surgeries on days with high particulate matter pollution …

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 …

department (ED) utilization using detailed data on 150,000 patients who moved regions within Israel. We document that about half … hospital admission (that is, via the ED), implying that the entire change in ED use by movers is driven by ED visits that do … not lead to hospital admission. Similar results are obtained in a complementary event study, which uses hospital entry as …

mandated minimum levels of patients per nurse in the hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already had … acceptable staffing levels, while others had nurse staffing ratios that did not meet mandated standards. Thus changes in hospital …

Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand … Medicare pneumonia patients in this market. We find that the mean valuation of amenities is positive and substantial. From the … patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …

the structure of liability rules in the Military Heath System. Active-duty patients seeking treatment from military … facilities and to all patients--active-duty or not--that receive care from civilian facilities. Drawing on this variation and … exploiting exogenous shocks to care location choices stemming from base-hospital closures, we find suggestive evidence that …

can attend an in-network hospital, but receive care from an out-of-network physician. Because patients do not choose their …

We evaluate whether hospital adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) leads to increases in billing where … patients at EMR hospitals, consistent with EMRs decreasing coding costs for medical patients. Greater post-reform completeness …

of days. We show that LTCHs respond to financial incentives by disproportionately discharging patients after they cross … the large-payment threshold, resulting in worse outcomes for patients. We find this occurs more often at for … adversely affecting patients …