We study the consequences of hospital competition for Medicare beneficiaries' heart attack care from 1985 to 1994. We … hospital markets, and how hospital competition interacts with the influence of managed care organizations to affect the key … competition were ambiguous; but in the 1990s, competition unambiguously improves social welfare. Increasing HMO enrollment over …

single-carrier plans, while others adopted regimes with at least two carriers. Hence, we also ask whether competition between …

The objective of this study is to estimate the effects of competition for both Medicare and HMO patients on the quality … infarction (reported by the state of California). Measures of competition are constructed for each hospital and payer type. The … competition measures are formulated to mitigate the possibility of endogeneity bias. The study finds that increases in the degree …

Competition and prospective payment systems have been widely used to attempt to control health care costs. Though much … low-cost users and this pressure may be increased by competition. We use data on hospital charges and cost …-to-charge ratios from California in 1983 and 1993 to examine the effects of competition on costs for high and low cost admissions …

insurance system that relies most heavily on the tools of regulated competition with more than 60% of its enrollees enrolled in … a private health plan in 2014. However, regulated competition in Medicaid differs from the typical model, emphasizing … competition and some potential consequences of this hybrid model …

of the individual insurance market, the Marketplaces invoke many of the principles of regulated competition including … the tools of regulated competition. We then discuss ways in which the Marketplace model deviates from the more …

Theoretical models of competition with fixed prices suggest that hospitals should compete by increasing quality of care … for diseases with the greatest profitability and demand elasticity. Most empirical evidence regarding hospital competition … within hospitals across quality measures. And second, while we replicate the standard result that greater competition leads …