A literature has found that medical providers inflate bills and report more conditions given financial incentives. We … evaluate whether Medicare reimbursement incentives are driven more by bill inflation or coding costs. Medicare reformed its … for surgical ones. We further use a 2008 policy where Medicare implemented financial penalties for certain hospital …

A literature has found that medical providers inflate bills and report more conditions given financial incentives. We … evaluate whether Medicare reimbursement incentives are driven more by bill inflation or coding costs. Medicare reformed its … for surgical ones. We further use a 2008 policy where Medicare implemented financial penalties for certain hospital …

decreased exits from the public hospital sector. Our results indicate that a light-touch intervention can shift management … behavior and improve hospital workforce turnover. These findings are important in sectors affected by labor supply shortages …

For some considerable time now the interface between ambulatory and hospital care has been mooted as a cause of … model which allows the numbers of ambulatory and hospital cases to be mutually interdependent, we examine the connection … between ambulatory and hospital specialist care separately for ten medical specialties. The results show that the …