Lindrooth, Richard C.; Bazzoli, Gloria J.; Clement, Jan - In: Southern Economic Journal 73 (2007) 3, pp. 575-587
We examine how hospital treatment intensity is affected by an exogenous change in average reimbursement for an admission. Theory predicts that treatment intensity would be most affected for highly profitable services but unaffected for unprofitable services. We use Medicare inpatient data from...