's charity caseload. However, these public hospitals also take on larger shares of most other types of patients. At the hospital …Many observers have blamed HMOs for increasing financial pressures on private hospitals and causing them to cut back on … the provision of charity care. We examine this issue using data on all hospital discharges in California between 1988 and …

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

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

's charity caseload. However, these public hospitals also take on larger shares of most other types of patients. At the hospital …Many observers have blamed HMOs for increasing financial pressures on private hospitals and causing them to cut back on … the provision of charity care. We examine this issue using data on all hospital discharges in California between 1988 and …

There is considerable evidence that patients that are treated by high volume physicians and hospitals have better … health outcomes than patients treated by low volume physicians and hospitals. Thus, as an indirect measure of quality … patients covered by these two types of plans. We find that managed care patients tend to be treated by lower volume providers …