This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her … practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical … expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice. Employing a difference-in-difference framework, we find that patients who …

Home care provides personalized medical care and social support to patients within their own home. Our work proposes a … dynamic scheduling framework to assist in the assignment of patients to health practitioners (HPs) at a single home care … agency. We model the decision of which patients to assign to HPs as a discrete-time Markov decision process. Due to the curse …