provide incentives for hospitals to reduce costs or improve quality. Instead, it makes publicly available hospital quality … hospitals will be motivated to improve quality but not decrease costs. We study hospital costs and quality for the period … spanning 2003 to 2009. To assess the impact of the Reform on costs and quality, we compare the change in Massachusetts hospital …

propose to test a subset of the Reform’s goals by examining at the hospital level whether the Massachusetts Health Care Reform … Hospital Compare (HC) data to investigate this issue and study hospital costs and quality for the period spanning 2003 to 2009 …. To assess the impact of the Reform on costs and quality, we compare the change in Massachusetts hospital costs and …

managed care enrollment significantly reduces hospital cost growth. While some of this effect is offset by increased spending … on physicians, we generally find a significant reduction in total spending as well. In analyzing the sources of hospital …

managed care enrollment significantly reduces hospital cost growth. While some of this effect is offset by increased spending … on physicians, we generally find a significant reduction in total spending as well. In analyzing the sources of hospital …