empirical evidence by using novel operations and claims data from a large, independent home health care firm with the Hospital …

understudied. We study potential trade-offs in the US hospital sector where public control declined by 42% over 1983-2019. Private … certain patients. Using national data across all hospitals and patients, we study 258 hospital privatizations over the 2000 … we interpret as a decline in access to care. Hospital privatization therefore partially offsets the benefits of providing …

Between 2000 and 2020, the share of US hospital bed capacity under multi-unit firms (systems) increased from 58% to 81 … ownership affects hospital profitability and quality. We combine novel, patient-level transaction price data from a large … commercial insurer, Medicare claims, and New York hospital discharges between 2012 and 2018 to study changes at over 100 …

we do not know whether hospital quality indicators are causal or biased. We evaluate the validity of commonly used … where hospital closures reallocate large numbers of patients to hospitals of different quality. This setting allows us to … measure whether patient outcomes improve as much as quality indicators predict when a relatively low-quality hospital closes …

find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital …

comparable clinical quality across hospital types. How specialty hospitals can maintain such a price premium remains an open …

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