for diseases with the greatest profitability and demand elasticity. Most empirical evidence regarding hospital competition … – ambulances usually take patients to the closest (or affiliated) hospital. In this paper, we derive a theoretically appropriate ….S. regional hospital markets to instrument for market concentration. We then estimate the model using risk-adjusted Medicare data …

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

We examine whether obtaining prescription drug insurance through the Medicare Part D program affected hospital … Medicare Part D was associated with an 8% decrease in the number of hospital admissions, a 7% decrease in Medicare expenditures …

readmission and mortality rates at the hospital level. We examined all Hospital Referral Regions (HRR), and found persisting … CMS' hospital readmission and mortality models. Given the importance, use for accountability, and basis for substantial … financial penalties of 30 day risk standardized outcome measures, it is vital that CMS hospital performance measures continue to …

connection between selection and moral hazard in star hospital use …

for each hospital-PAC pair in a market to test how changes in integration impact patient outcomes. Second, we use an …

Using administrative data on over 4 million hospital visits, we document striking gender disparities within a … government health insurance program that entitles 46 million poor individuals to free hospital care in Rajasthan, India. Females … account for only 33% of hospital visits among children and 43% among the elderly. These shares are lower for more expensive …