poorly under the Hospital Value Based Purchasing Program, and additional penalties for hospitals with unacceptable rates of … re-admission or too many hospital acquired conditions rates.4 Together these cuts create a daunting challenge for the …

Medicaid expansion on a hospital's incentive to invest in technology. Using American Hospital Association data, we find that on …

Medicaid expansion on a hospital's incentive to invest in technology. Using American Hospital Association data, we find that on …

Hospital Value Based Purchasing (“VBP”) Program; and a penalty of as much as 3.0% for the hospitals which fail to meet the … standards set forth in the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (“RRP”). In addition to a penalty up to 2% for lapses in … hospital to lose more than 10% of its Medicare revenue creates daunting challenges, especially with those institutions in …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …