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Hospitals As Hotels : The Role of Patient Amenities in Hospital Demand

Goldman, Dana - 2008

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 …

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Vertical Integration and Optimal Reimbursement Policy

Afendulis, Christopher - 2011

payment for skilled nursing facilities (SNF PPS) in geographic areas with high versus low levels of hospital/SNF integration …

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Do Good Reports Mean Higher Prices? The Impact of Hospital Compare Ratings on Cardiac Pricing

Dor, Avi - 2016

Previous research found that the initiation of Hospital Compare (HC) quality reporting had little impact on patient … outcomes. However little is known about its impact on hospital prices, which may be significant since insurers are positioned …

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The Future of Health Economics

Fuchs, Victor R. - 1999

This paper discusses health economics as a behavioral science and as input into health policy and health services research. I illustrate the dual role with data on publications and citations of two leading health economics journals and three leading American health economists. Five important,...

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The Anatomy of Health Insurance

Cutler, David M. - 1999

This article describes the anatomy of health insurance. It begins by considering the optimal design of health insurance policies. Such policies must make tradeoffs appropriately between risk sharing on the one hand and agency problems such as moral hazard (the incentive of people to seek more...

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Economics and Mental Health

Frank, Richard G. - 1999

This paper is concerned with the economics of mental health. We argue that mental health economics is like health economics only more so: uncertainty and variation in treatments are greater; the assumption of patient self-interested behavior is more dubious; response to financial incentives such...

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Economic Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases

Philipson, Tomas - 1999

Infectious disease is currently the main cause of mortality in the world and has been even more important historically. This paper reviews recent research in economic epidemiology. Specifically, it discusses the occurrence of infectious diseases and the effects of public health interventions...

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Understanding Algorithmic Discrimination in Health Economics Through the Lens of Measurement Errors

Basu, Anirban; Hammarlund, Noah; Khor, Sara; Bansal, Aasthaa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

There is growing concern that the increasing use of machine learning and artificial intelligence-based systems may exacerbate health disparities through discrimination. We provide a hierarchical definition of discrimination consisting of algorithmic discrimination arising from predictive scores...

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Industrial Organization of Health Care Markets

Handel, Benjamin R.; Ho, Katherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In this paper we outline the tools that have been developed to model and analyze competition and regulation in health care markets, and describe particular papers that apply them to policy-relevant questions. We focus particularly on the I.O. models and empirical methods and analyses that...

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Germs in the Family : The Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Endemic Respiratory Disease Spread

Daysal, N. Meltem; Ding, Hui; Rossin-Slater, Maya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

While the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the large costs of infectious diseases, less attention has been paid to the impacts of more common, endemic respiratory viruses that frequently circulate in the population, especially when it comes to their potential long-term consequences for population...

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