This paper examines the effect of HMO market development on hospital utilization in short term general hospitals in the … variation in hospital utilization. Among seven measures of hospital utilization, the association between inpatient days per … hospital utilization over the period 1985 to 1993 was attributable more to factors such as technological change than to HMOs …

propose to test a subset of the Reform’s goals by examining at the hospital level whether the Massachusetts Health Care Reform … Hospital Compare (HC) data to investigate this issue and study hospital costs and quality for the period spanning 2003 to 2009 …. To assess the impact of the Reform on costs and quality, we compare the change in Massachusetts hospital costs and …

data on inpatient hospital services in San Diego, California and use our results to simulate the effects of hospital … mergers. We find that hospital markets are localized in the sense that mergers among suburban hospitals, or mergers among …. The 1990s witnessed a wave of hospital mergers, relatively few of which were challenged by the Federal Trade Commission or …

well as the level of competition among them. This paper differentiates between HMO penetration and competition and examines … hospitals in the U.S. between 1985-1995. Results show that a hospital is less likely to adopt the technology if HMO market … penetration increases but more likely to adopt if HMO competition increases. Further, the latter effect is non-linear in the …

considering managed care purchases of hospital services in the San Diego market. Finally, we present three applications, including … an analysis of hospital mergers in San Diego …