life expectancy of WA hospital patients by almost 3 months between 2000 and 2007, controlling for the patient's age, sex … patient had private insurance), postcode (over 400 postcodes), year of hospital admission, and number of procedures performed … longevity of all hospital patients, i.e. patients with a variety of medical conditions. The analysis is based on data on over …

Patient cost-sharing for primary care and prescription drugs is designed to reduce the prevalence of moral hazard in … deficiencies by studying a policy change that raised patient cost-sharing for retired public employees in California. We find that … HIE, we find large "offset" effects in terms of increased hospital utilization in response to the combination of higher …