Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand … patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …-standard-deviation increase in amenities raises a hospital's demand by 38.4% on average, whereas demand is substantially less responsive to …

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 …

to obtain Sleep discounts off list prices from providers. I study hospital responses to the advent of price competition … in California over the 1984-1988 period. I note that, due to the nature of hospital bargaining with PPOs, hospitals … should face more competitive pressure in hospital markets that arc more competitive ex-ante. This hypothesis is supported by …

The growth of unionization among hospital workers was sharply accelerated by the 1974 amendments to the NLRA covering … voluntary hospital workers. With continuing inflationary pressures in the hospital sector, the cost implications of the recent … and projected growth of hospital unions is of some concern to policy-makers . This paper presents estimates of union cost …

availability of hospital services. This paper presents data for the country as a whole on hospital utilization during the post … structural equations and hypotheses as to why the measures of hospital utilization vary across communities, and to estimate these …

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 …

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

of market power. We estimate willingness-to-pay models to evaluate hospital market power across analysis areas. We find … that countervailing market power is important: a typical hospital merger would raise hospital prices 4.3% at the 25th …

The United States has recently seen a large increase in hospital mergers and acquisitions, and Catholic hospital … mergers between Catholic and non-Catholic systems since 1997. Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network … to Catholic (and vice versa) on reproductive health procedures that are likely to be affected. Using hospital …