-for-service, capitation) by so-called mixed payment schemes. Until now it is still an unresolved issue whether patients are really better off … patient types. Real patients gain a monetary benefit from subjects’ decisions. Our results reveal that overprovision observed …

show that when the insurer designs the healthcare payment policy to let hospitals dump high-cost patients, there is a trade …-off between the disutility of dumped patients (changes in hospitals' rent extracting due to low-severity patients) and the shift … in the cost-reduction effort level for high-severity patients. We also clarify the welfare-improving conditions by …

Rural hospitals play a crucial role in providing healthcare to rural Americans, a vulnerable and underserved population … the hospital characteristics that are associated with patients choosing rural hospitals, and sheds light on the types of … patients who depend on rural hospitals for care and, hence, may be the most impaired by the closure of rural hospitals. Using …