This paper examines the determinants of hospital stay intensity, the decision to seek hospital care as a public or … private patient and the decision to purchase private hospital insurance. We describe a theoretical model to motivate the … evidence of endogeneity between the decision to purchase insurance on the type and intensity of hospital care use. We find some …

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 …

terms of increased access to hospital care for newly eligible children, so that there is an overall 10% rise in child …

We study the consequences of hospital competition for Medicare beneficiaries' heart attack care from 1985 to 1994. We … examine how relatively exogenous determinants of hospital choice such as travel distances influence the competitiveness of … hospital markets, and how hospital competition interacts with the influence of managed care organizations to affect the key …

. This study examines the effect of HI on the length of hospital stay (LOS) for hospitalized patients in India. The effects …

design to examine effects of the expansion on health insurance coverage, hospital use, and patient health. We then link these … changes to effects on hospital finances. We show that a substantial share of the federally-funded Medicaid expansion … hospital revenue and profitability, with larger gains for government hospitals. On the benefits side, we do not detect …