Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money … the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years … for otherwise equal newborns with birth weight just below compared to just above specific birth weight thresholds. As …

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the … neonatology is based inter alia on birth weight, with substantial discontinuities in reimbursement at eight different thresholds …. These discontinuities create strong incentives to upcode preterm infants into classes of lower birth weight. Using data from …

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the … neonatology is based inter alia on birth weight, with substantial discontinuities in reimbursement at eight different thresholds …. These discontinuities create strong incentives to upcode preterm infants into classes of lower birth weight. Using data from …

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the … neonatology is based inter alia on birth weight, with substantial discontinuities in reimbursement at eight different thresholds …. These discontinuities create strong incentives to upcode preterm infants into classes of lower birth weight. Using data from …

). Patient classification in neonatology is based inter alia on birth weight, with substantial discontinuities in reimbursement … extremely low birth weight into classes of even lower birth weight. In this paper, we use data from the German birth statistics … 1996 to 2010 to document the extent to which German hospitals have upcoded newborns by systematically documenting birth …

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the … neonatology is based inter alia on birth weight, with substantial discontinuities in reimbursement at eight different thresholds …. These discontinuities create strong incentives to upcode preterm infants into classes of lower birth weight. Using data from …

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the … neonatology is based inter alia on birth weight, with substantial discontinuities in reimbursement at eight different thresholds …. These discontinuities create strong incentives to upcode preterm infants into classes of lower birth weight. Using data from …