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In 1999, California became the first state to mandate minimum nurse-to-patient ratios for every unit in general acute care hospitals. Although this law increased hospitals' nurse- staffing levels, it precipitated a substantial rise in nurse wages as the short-run supply of nurse labor proved...
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Emergency departments are the front line of health care systems and play a critical role in ensuring an efficient and high-quality response for patients in stress or crisis situations. A growing demand for emergency care might however reduce patients’ satisfaction (through waiting times),...
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A major reason behind crowding in emergency departments (ED) is non-urgent patients' visits to ED. In this paper we investigate how non-urgent ED visits are influenced by patients' imperfect perception of their urgency and their self-interested choice, and we explore interventions that can...
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Expanding insurance coverage could, by insulating patients from having to pay full cost, encourage the utilization of arguably unnecessary medical services. It could also eliminate (or at least diminish) the need for emergency services through increasing access to preventive care. Using publicly...
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The reformulation of existing boundaries between primary and secondary care, in order to shift selected services traditionally provided by Emergency Departments to community-based alternatives has determined a variety of organisational solutions aimed at reducing the ED overcrowding. One...
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Expanding insurance coverage could, by insulating patients from having to pay full cost, encourage the utilization of arguably unnecessary medical services. It could also eliminate (or at least diminish) the need for emergency services through increasing access to preventive care. Using publicly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821437
regulation's scope to ASCs—consistent with diffuse distortionary effects from Medicare rulemaking …
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This study contributes to the literature on supply-side adjustments to insurance expansions by examining the effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on ambulance response times. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of the ACA as well as pre-treatment differences in...
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This study contributes to the literature on supply-side adjustments to insurance expansions by examining the effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on ambulance response times. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of the ACA as well as pre-treatment differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948631
A number of False Claims Act lawsuits have alleged that managers at for-profithospitals pressured physicians, using feedback and manipulation of defaults, to admit patientsunnecessarily from the emergency department. Using 100% hospital records from Florida for2015-2017, we estimate that...
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