Cuesta, José Ignacio; Noton, Carlos E.; Vatter, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
private hospital capacity is vertically integrated, integration increases inpatient care spending by 6 percent and decreases … to high-quality non-integrated hospitals, resulting in plan networks that limit hospital competition. Whereas vertical … integration reduces double marginalization, skewed cost-sharing structures--and their effect on hospital competition--more than …
