I exploit a plausibly exogenous change in hospital financial incentives to examine whether the behavior of private not …

infer returns from hospital entry behavior. We estimate a model of patient flows for CABG patients that provides inputs for …

support from hospitals for states to create hospital “taxes” in name only — hospitals and states both end up with more money … nonprofit hospitals may be serving private rather than public interests, they are able to use these hospital taxes as a way to … the hospital tax to general fund purposes rather than Medicaid supplemental payments. This article looks at how states …

outcome variables are the risk-adjusted hospital mortality rates for pneumonia (estimated by the authors) and acute myocardial … infarction (reported by the state of California). Measures of competition are constructed for each hospital and payer type. The … of competition for HMO patients decrease risk-adjusted hospital mortality rates. Conversely, increases in competition for …

terms of increased access to hospital care for newly eligible children, so that there is an overall 10% rise in child …

the disability and that states that are disproportionately African-American have a lower quality of hospital care. This … also explains state-level differences in quality of hospital care. The quality of Medicare beneficiary hospital care was … in the score of the state's quality of hospital care. Without explicitly incorporating strategies to eliminate …

outcome variables are the risk-adjusted hospital mortality rates for pneumonia (estimated by the authors) and acute myocardial … infarction (reported by the state of California). Measures of competition are constructed for each hospital and payer type. The … of competition for HMO patients decrease risk-adjusted hospital mortality rates. Conversely, increases in competition for …