Health insurers often tie payments to providers' quality of care. Although payers do this to elicit more effort from … providers, some providers may game the system by avoiding patients who would cause their quality scores to fall. We use annual … higher-quality care. Patients who would reduce their facilities' scores are 14.3-71.5% more likely to switch facilities …

internet and stimulate incentives for the diffusion of next generation platforms …

Long waiting lines are a common feature and a major concern in many public health care delivery systems. The waiting … lines are often characterized as inefficient, because they are a burden to patients without generating any gains for … providers. There is an ongoing debate in Germany regarding the preferential treatment given to private health insurance (PHI …

effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patientś demand for health services, and that …While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other …

This paper studies the effects of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative on health insurance … coverage, access to care, health care use, and health outcomes. We exploit a difference-in-differences that relies on the … significant increases in health care use, although there is some evidence that DACA increased demand for mental health services …

There is widespread and unexplained variation in the outcomes of similar patients across place and providers in all … developed health systems. This paper provides new evidence on the role senior doctors play in determining patient outcomes. I … exploit within-hospital quasi-random assignment of patients to senior doctors following a heart attack to estimate the …

cream skimming, i.e., choosing patients for some characteristic(s) other than their need for care, which enhances the … likely to treat high-cost patients than not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals, showing no evidence that FP hospitals engage in cream …

health of about 6 million Medicare SNF patients between 2011 and 2016, to estimate the value added for about 14,000 distinct … percentile SNF is able to discharge a patient at the same health level about a week sooner, which is about one third of the … to the potential for substantial gains through policies that encourage reallocation of patients to higher-quality SNFs …