the hypothesis of productive efficiency; moving a patient from a 10th percentile to a 90th percentile hospital with … misallocation accounting for as much as 25 percent of the variation in hospital productivity, our results suggest that how the money …

Between 2000 and 2020, the share of US hospital bed capacity under multi-unit firms (systems) increased from 58% to 81 … ownership affects hospital profitability and quality. We combine novel, patient-level transaction price data from a large … commercial insurer, Medicare claims, and New York hospital discharges between 2012 and 2018 to study changes at over 100 …

we do not know whether hospital quality indicators are causal or biased. We evaluate the validity of commonly used … where hospital closures reallocate large numbers of patients to hospitals of different quality. This setting allows us to … measure whether patient outcomes improve as much as quality indicators predict when a relatively low-quality hospital closes …

estimates of hospital ownership type consist of the impact of differential patient case mix (selection) and hospital cost …

High and increasing hospital prices have led to calls for price regulation. If prices are high because of consolidation …'s predictions across numerous quality measures including patient satisfaction, hospital processes, risk adjusted mortality, the …

Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital … behavior and performance. We open the "black box" of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains …

policymakers and hospital administrators to monitor financial distress in real-time when case mixes change, or other large shocks …

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 …