formula is patient satisfaction with their hospital care. Physicians and hospitals, however, have raised concerns especially …

–2018 data for Medicare patients admitted to nursing homes following a hospital stay. To address patient selection into … admitted to nursing homes more specialized in PAC have lower hospital readmissions and mortality, longer nursing home stays …

We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … are all under a DRG-based payment system after the reform. For each hospital status, we assess the benefits of local … hospital level to take into account hospital unobserved heterogeneity and censorship in the duration of stays in a flexible way …