Financial incentives are commonly used to encourage improvements in quality. However, the presence of spillovers can make managing these incentives difficult. Using a large, national dataset, we study the spillover effects of a national healthcare quality improvement policy, the Hospital...

Emergency department (ED) crowding has been a persistent concern in the U.S. healthcare system. As such, many researchers have studied its effects on outcomes within the ED. We present novel results regarding the impacts of ED crowding on system performance outside the ED, specifically post-ED...