Gowrisankaran, Gautam; Lucarelli, Claudio; … - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 29 (2011) 3, pp. 342-344
This paper seeks to understand the impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program on rural resident hospital choice. The program created a new class of hospital, the Critical Access Hospital (CAH), which receives more generous reimbursement in return for limiting its beds and...