Many patients have a choice of a provider for acute care, typically choosing between an Urgent Care facility (UC) or an … patients, and takes into account the factors that affect the patient. We show that a separating equilibrium, in which all … patients self-triaged as non-critical choose to go to the UC first, dominates pooling equilibria for moderate error rates in …

satisfaction by communicating waits to patients.We conduct a field experiment at an urban ED. We develop a machine learning … patients with personalized estimated waits with no overestimation (the median), moderate overestimation (70th-percentile), or … high overestimation (90th-percentile). Patients report higher satisfaction when receiving their estimated waits, but the …

Medicare pricing is known to indirectly influence provider prices and care provision for non-Medicare patients; however … choices for non-Medicare patients responded to Medicare removing a ban on ambulatory surgery center (ASC) use for a specific … procedure. Following the rule change, surgeons began reallocating both Medicare and commercially insured patients to ASCs …