cream skimming, i.e., choosing patients for some characteristic(s) other than their need for care, which enhances the … likely to treat high-cost patients than not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals, showing no evidence that FP hospitals engage in cream …

improve health outcomes if it reduces information frictions and helps patients choose higher quality providers or causes …%. Broadband access primarily helped patients choose higher-quality providers; we find less evidence that broadband improved …

. Specifically, physicians became 70% more likely to use ASCs for the policy-targeted procedure among their non-Medicare patients …Medicare pricing is known to indirectly influence provider prices and care provision for non-Medicare patients; however …, Medicare's regulatory externalities beyond fee-setting are less well understood. We study how physicians' outpatient surgery …