poorly under the Hospital Value Based Purchasing Program, and additional penalties for hospitals with unacceptable rates of … re-admission or too many hospital acquired conditions rates.4 Together these cuts create a daunting challenge for the …

design to examine effects of the expansion on health insurance coverage, hospital use, and patient health. We then link these … changes to effects on hospital finances. We show that a substantial share of the federally-funded Medicaid expansion … hospital revenue and profitability, with larger gains for government hospitals. On the benefits side, we do not detect …

Medicaid expansion on a hospital's incentive to invest in technology. Using American Hospital Association data, we find that on …

We examine whether obtaining prescription drug insurance through the Medicare Part D program affected hospital … Medicare Part D was associated with an 8% decrease in the number of hospital admissions, a 7% decrease in Medicare expenditures …

design to examine effects of the expansion on health insurance coverage, hospital use, and patient health. We then link these … changes to effects on hospital finances. We show that a substantial share of the federally-funded Medicaid expansion … hospital revenue and profitability, with larger gains for government hospitals. On the benefits side, we do not detect …