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The Effect of Performance Pay Incentives on Market Frictions : Evidence from Medicare
Gupta, Atul; David, Guy; Kim, Kunhee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
empirical evidence by using novel operations and claims data from a large, independent home health care firm with the Hospital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462664
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The Impact of Privatization : Evidence from the Hospital Sector
Duggan, Mark G.; Gupta, Atul; Jackson, Emilie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
understudied. We study potential trade-offs in the US hospital sector where public control declined by 42% over 1983-2019. Private … certain patients. Using national data across all hospitals and patients, we study 258 hospital privatizations over the 2000 … we interpret as a decline in access to care. Hospital privatization therefore partially offsets the benefits of providing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537718
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Trust and Health Care-Seeking Behavior
Darden, Michael; Macis, Mario - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We present results from a nationally representative survey of American adults, guided by a simple theoretical model expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust. We report several findings. First, we document a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468228
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Randomized Regulation : The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets
Bedoya, Guadalupe; Das, Jishnu; Dolinger, Amy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We report results from the first randomization of a regulatory reform in the health sector. The reform established minimum quality standards for patient safety, an issue that has become increasingly salient following the Ebola and COVID-19 epidemics. In our experiment, all 1348 health facilities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287304
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The Mortality Effects of Healthcare Consolidation : Evidence from Emergency Department Closures
Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine whether loss of emergency department services is associated with county-level mortality rates in rural areas over the period 2005-2018. We use a propensity-weighted difference-in-difference approach, comparing counties that lost emergency department services to counties that retained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512043
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The Impact of Vertical Integration on Physician Behavior and Healthcare Delivery : Evidence from Gastroenterology Practices
Saghafian, Soroush; Song, Lina; Newhouse, Joseph P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
US healthcare is undergoing a period of substantial change, with many hospitals vertically integrating with physician …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226125
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Price Spillovers and Specialization in health Care : The Case of Children's Hospitals
McCarthy, Ian M.; Raval, Mehul V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
comparable clinical quality across hospital types. How specialty hospitals can maintain such a price premium remains an open …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388780
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Do Pandemics Change Healthcare? Evidence from the Great Influenza
Esteves, Rui Pedro; Mitchener, Kris; Nencka, Peter; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We … find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital … access to healthcare. We do not find evidence that government-run hospitals or other types of city-level spending related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462691
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The Effect of Soft Budget Constraints on Access and Quality in Hospital Care
Shen, Yu-Chu - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464391
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Do For-Profit Hospitals Cream-Skim Patients? Evidence from Inpatient Psychiatric Care in California
Lee, Donghoon; Basu, Anirban; Dugan, Jerome A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
estimates of hospital ownership type consist of the impact of differential patient case mix (selection) and hospital cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512033