reasons that may not be in patients' best interests. Optimal Medicare reimbursement policy depends upon the extent to which … payment for skilled nursing facilities (SNF PPS) in geographic areas with high versus low levels of hospital/SNF integration …

Although doctors and hospitals own their patients' medical records, state and federal laws require that they provide … patients with a copy at "reasonable cost." We examine the effects of state laws that cap the fees that doctors and hospitals … are allowed to charge patients for a copy of their records. We test whether these laws affected patients' propensity to …