estimates to evaluate the effects of hospital mergers. We find that MCO bargaining restrains hospital prices significantly. The … hospitals. We show that increasing patient coinsurance tenfold would reduce prices by 16%. We find that a proposed hospital … acquisition in Northern Virginia that was challenged by the Federal Trade Commission would have significantly raised hospital …

merger on market outcomes can be obtained. Using this methodology, I evaluate the impact of independent hospital mergers …Advances in structural demand estimation have substantially improved economists' ability to forecast the impact of … effect of a merger on the behavior of rival firms, and instrumenting for these mergers, unbiased estimates of the effect of a …

example, U.S. antitrust agencies lost several hospital merger challenges when evidence showed that a nontrivial fraction of … estimate a random coefficients logit model of hospital demand and use the estimates to predict the increase in price that … even in suburban areas with high outflows of consumers, some hospital mergers could lead to significant price increases …

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 … to respond to quality information when engaging hospitals in price negotiations. To explore this issue we estimate …

are robust to a range of approaches to address the endogeneity of firms' merger decisions …

through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression …

whether patients discharged to hospital-based SNFs have better outcomes. In unadjusted comparisons, hospital-based SNF … solved the problem of differential selection into hospital-based and freestanding SNFs by using differential distance from … home to the nearest hospital with a SNF relative to the distance from home to the nearest hospital without a SNF as an …

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. In this paper, we explore how … access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a combination of novel data and a unique … quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke Endowment in the early twentieth …