hospital financial data to study the resulting uncompensated care, medical care for which no payment is received. We use both … person costs local hospitals $900 each year in uncompensated care. Similarly, the closure of a nearby hospital increases the … uncompensated care costs of remaining hospitals. Increases in the uninsured population also lower hospital profit margins, which …

Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit …

, which is affected by both patient and hospital characteristics. To illustrate the characteristics of the dynamic contract …

HIE, we find large "offset" effects in terms of increased hospital utilization in response to the combination of higher … HIE, we find large "offset" effects in terms of increased hospital utilization in response to the combination of higher …