design to examine effects of the expansion on health insurance coverage, hospital use, and patient health. We then link these … changes to effects on hospital finances. We show that a substantial share of the federally-funded Medicaid expansion … hospital revenue and profitability, with larger gains for government hospitals. On the benefits side, we do not detect …

We examine whether obtaining prescription drug insurance through the Medicare Part D program affected hospital … Medicare Part D was associated with an 8% decrease in the number of hospital admissions, a 7% decrease in Medicare expenditures …

Medicaid expansion on a hospital's incentive to invest in technology. Using American Hospital Association data, we find that on …

We study a 2008 policy reform in which Medicare revised its hospital payment system to better reflect patients …' severity of illness. We construct a simulated instrument that predicts a hospital's policy-induced change in reimbursement …

first to use hospital data to examine the impact of this legislation on insurance coverage, utilization patterns, and … hospital discharges in Massachusetts, the reform decreased uninsurance by 36% relative to its initial level. We also find that … hospital level and find that hospital cost growth did not increase after the reform in Massachusetts relative to other states …

by horizontal hospital mergers as an instrument, we show that rising prices raise the cost of labor by increasing …