by constructing an index of technology availability in hospitals. Our index is based on the number of services provided … by a hospital, weighted by how rare those services are. We use the index to examine the relationship between managed care … than growth in lower market share areas. To the extent that our index captures variation in the costs of new technologies …

divide nominal expenditures by an official government price index to decompose these expenditures into price and quantity … components. In this paper we construct a new price index for the treatment of one illness depression. Making use of results from … regardless of which index number procedure is employed time period the treatment price index for the acute phase of major …

by constructing an index of technology availability in hospitals. Our index is based on the number of services provided … by a hospital, weighted by how rare those services are. We use the index to examine the relationship between managed care … than growth in lower market share areas. To the extent that our index captures variation in the costs of new technologies …