Information problems in health care and the multifaceted nature of hospital quality complicate hospital choice. Online … about a hospital's quality of care, and given their increasing popularity, these measures may affect hospital choice and may … have implications for hospital prices. Using the universe of hospital Yelp reviews and inpatient claims data for elective …

RateMDs website and the Florida Hospital Discharge data, we investigate whether online ratings reflect physicians' medical … correlation between physicians’ online ratings and their actual medical performance. Using patients' ratings of physicians at the …

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital …

introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed …We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …