how hospitals allocated over $3 billion obtained from gaming a Medicare payment loophole. The average gaming hospital … consequences of such engineered windfalls vary substantially by hospital ownership …

We examine how health insurance expansions affect the entry and location decisions of health care clinics. Exploiting … other types of health care clinics, including urgent care centers. While it has long been accepted that reductions in the …, 1963), our results demonstrate that whether health insurance expansions cause the supply side to expand or contract further …

public health clinics. We exploit an exogenous reduction in public health clinic capacity to quantify nurses' trade …

Obtaining better information on the quality of health care providers is one of the most pressing issues in health … available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart …

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 strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

to the health sector …

health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical opportunities for measuring such outcomes … using U.S. national survey data. To these ends, the paper provides an overview of Grossman's seminal health production …