terms of increased access to hospital care for newly eligible children, so that there is an overall 10% rise in child …

Maryland has simultaneously operated per case - and per service hospital payment systems since 1976 with varying levels …

hospitalization puts patients at risk of hospital acquired conditions and disrupts their lives. We use variation in the patient …'s nearest hospital's propensity to admit patients with similar observable characteristics as an instrument for the admission … we find that the marginal hospital admission increases the number of hospital days by seven days and increases charges by …

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

Medicare spending in 2014. We use the entry of LTCHs into local hospital markets and an event study design to estimate LTCHs …

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 …

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 …

substantial "offset" effects in terms of increased hospital utilization in response to the combination of higher copayments for …