"Professional partnerships might facilitate matching between specialized professionals and heterogeneous consumers, particularly where matching across firms is limited by information, incentives or regulation. We examine the extent to which internally-differentiated medical groups promote...

This paper seeks to understand the impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexi- bility (Flex) Program on rural resident hospital choice and welfare. The Flex program created a new class of hospital, the Critical Access Hospital (CAH), which receives more generous reimbursement in return for...