. For patients with diagnoses of Pneumonia or Acute Myocardial Infarction, an additional day in the hospital could decrease … reducing mortality rates far exceed the cost of keeping these patients in the hospital for an additional day … as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality …

cream skimming, i.e., choosing patients for some characteristic(s) other than their need for care, which enhances the … estimates of hospital ownership type consist of the impact of differential patient case mix (selection) and hospital cost … likely to treat high-cost patients than not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals, showing no evidence that FP hospitals engage in cream …

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 …

human capital (general, hospital-specific and unit or team-specific) of the nursing team on the unit affects patients … use detailed longitudinal monthly data on nursing units in the Veterans Administration hospital system to identify how the …

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart … accurately estimate and forecast each provider's quality level. For patients with heart disease, the method is able to predict …

outcomes: for patients with the same propensity to be treated, prejudice implies a higher return from treatment for treated …

financial health affect different aspects of hospital operation. In our study, we analyze this issue focusing on hospital access … account both hospital's current and past financial health as well as their expected financial outlook (i.e., whether there is …

provision of medical services and on operating margins at the three types of hospitals. We find that nonprofit hospitals … operating margins of nonprofit hospitals. These results fit best with theories in which hospitals maximize their own output …

reasons that may not be in patients' best interests. Optimal Medicare reimbursement policy depends upon the extent to which … payment for skilled nursing facilities (SNF PPS) in geographic areas with high versus low levels of hospital/SNF integration …