The contingent valuation (CV) method is an attractive approach for comparing home care to hospital care in which the … by econometric results. The anchoring bias hypothesis was confirmed. The WTP for home BT compared to hospital BT … increased with household income, with previous experience of home care, with living far from the hospital and with low quality …

Medicare spending in 2014. We use the entry of LTCHs into local hospital markets and an event study design to estimate LTCHs …

inpatient hospital care, and concluded that “there is no evidence that services provided at home replace hospital services … as a substitute for inpatient hospital care. My analysis is based on longitudinal (panel) data — observations on states … that states that had higher home health care employment growth during the period 1998-2008 tended to have lower hospital …

between the five most preferred providers, as predicted by theory. Our findings suggest that the incremental approach provides …

In many countries hospital regulation undergoes fundamental change. In reaction to steadily increasing costs … pricing turns out to be more favorable, though not perfect. -- yardstick competition ; regulation ; hospital market …