payment for skilled nursing facilities (SNF PPS) in geographic areas with high versus low levels of hospital/SNF integration … health services (and other services subject to agency problems) to consider the organizational form of their suppliers when …

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart …

discrimination using observational data. We focus our inquiry on the enormous literature in healthcare where treatment disparities by …

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 … are less likely to shut down safety net services. In addition, hospitals with softer budget constraints appear to have …

provision of medical services and on operating margins at the three types of hospitals. We find that nonprofit hospitals …

services in rural areas across nonprofit, for-profit, and government hospitals. We also consider the effect of hospital … hospital ownership in the urban context. We examine differences in the provision of profitable and unprofitable medical … ownership mix within rural hospital markets. We find that rural nonprofit hospitals are more likely than for-profit hospitals to …

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Quality Forum have endorsed 30-day mortality rates … as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality … rates are reasonable measures of hospital quality as they consider the frequency of an event that occurs after a patient is …

Unlike in the production of most goods, changes in capacity for labor-intensive services only affect outcomes of …