has played a major role in recent federal lawsuits against hospitals and hospital chains, but more importantly provides a … reputational or penalty costs. Our empirical work focuses primarily on hospital admissions involving pneumonia and respiratory … more to the hospital. Between 1989 and 1996, the incidence of the most expensive DRG (relative to all DRGs for pneumonia …

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

We study the consequences of hospital competition for Medicare beneficiaries' heart attack care from 1985 to 1994. We … examine how relatively exogenous determinants of hospital choice such as travel distances influence the competitiveness of … hospital markets, and how hospital competition interacts with the influence of managed care organizations to affect the key …

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 …

certification dates, we find that gaining access to an ostensibly integrated hospital had no effect on the Black-White infant …. These results are consistent with descriptions of the federal hospital desegregation campaign as producing only cosmetic …

outcome variables are the risk-adjusted hospital mortality rates for pneumonia (estimated by the authors) and acute myocardial … infarction (reported by the state of California). Measures of competition are constructed for each hospital and payer type. The … of competition for HMO patients decrease risk-adjusted hospital mortality rates. Conversely, increases in competition for …

infer returns from hospital entry behavior. We estimate a model of patient flows for CABG patients that provides inputs for …

I exploit a plausibly exogenous change in hospital financial incentives to examine whether the behavior of private not …