opportunity to examine the impact of health policy reform on public hospital admissions using a difference-in-difference approach … demand of free medical services was mainly driven by patients that required specialized treatment …

–2018 data for Medicare patients admitted to nursing homes following a hospital stay. To address patient selection into …Nursing homes serve both long-term care and post-acute care (PAC) patients, two groups with distinct financing … patient’s residential ZIP code to the closest nursing home with different levels of PAC specialization. We find that patients …

We examine 558 hospital mergers during a period of increased antitrust enforcement. Using US data on commercially … insured patients from 2009-2016, we estimate an average price effect of roughly 5% with a smaller effect for mergers later in … the sample. Mergers between hospitals that were substitutes for patients, in unconcentrated insurance markets, and less …

applied to hospital data. We provide a synoptic survey of few empirical analyses of efficiency measurement in health care …

health care may allow patients to be discharged from the hospital earlier. I use hospital discharge data from the Healthcare … to 4.59. The estimates indicate that this was entirely due to the increase in the fraction of hospital patients … the rise in the fraction of hospital patients discharged to home health care is 36% larger than the increase in the …

This article addresses the question of whether strong legal immunity of hospital peer review of physicians in HCQIA and … physicians and professional legal and medical commentary on hospital peer review. The article suggests that there is need to … reform the various legal immunities currently in place for hospital peer review of physicians and other procedural reforms of …

.S. hospital industry. Our data permit controlling for inter-institutional differences in the scope and complexity of jobs having …

Objectives: To estimate the impact of increased physical activity on utilization of hospital services among older … shows that physical activity is negatively associated with the probability of staying in the hospital as well as the numbers … of hospital stay among users. However, the potential gain decreases as current activity level increases. The results also …