Prior studies generally find non-existing or weakly negative (heart failure) associations between risk adjusted readmission and mortality rates at the hospital level. We examined all Hospital Referral Regions (HRR), and found persisting modest positive associations for acute myocardial...

The Affordable Care Act is designed to increase healthcare access nationwide. Such foreseeable new demand in the face of a fixed supply of physicians could lead to greater, and/or more intensive, recruitment of primary care physicians. We analyzed all primary care advertisements on three...