comprehensive database that covers more than 2,000 hospitals nationwide from 1996 to 2017. We employ a flexible generalized … the impacts on negotiated prices and costs. We also find large heterogeneous responses across hospitals that depend on: (1 …) hospitals’ past charge prices prior to adopting the price transparency law, that is, high-price hospitals reduce charge and …

limited firm price competition in health care markets …

evidence. Two of the insurers experienced substantial post-merger price increases relative to the control group of hospitals …

comparable clinical quality across hospital types. How specialty hospitals can maintain such a price premium remains an open …Specialty hospitals tend to negotiate higher commercial insurance payments, even for relatively routine procedures with … hospitals as sufficiently distinct from other hospitals, so that specialty hospitals effectively compete in a separate market …

quality innovations at low costs, whereas investment outlays have to be financed by external capital. We show that the scope … frictions intensify quality-based (cost-based) sorting of firms if the scope for vertical product differentiation is high (low …