for surgical ones. We further use a 2008 policy where Medicare implemented financial penalties for certain hospital …

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 … 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 …

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 …

results in the hospital ownership literature can be explained largely by differences in authors' underlying theoretical … combined estimates across studies suggest little difference in cost among all three types of hospital ownership, and that for …

The aim of this paper is to examine the determinants of interests rates on tax-exempt hospital bonds. The results … hospitals in states with relatively high income tax rates to issue debt. The Federal tax act of 1986 raised the cost of hospital … hospital should receive via its participation in tax-exempt markets, how this subsidy should vary among hospitals with …

Hospital payment regulation has historically been introduced to meet multiple policy objectives. The primary objective …

This paper examines the link between legislative politics, hospital behavior, and health care spending. When trying to … the Section 508 Hospital Coalition, which spent millions of dollars lobbying Congress to extend the program. After the … vote on the MMA and before the vote to reauthorize the 508 program, members of Congress with a 508 hospital in their …