Upcoding in Medicare has been a topic of interest to economists and policy makers for nearly 40 years. While upcoding … of Medicare is to inform policy makers on the magnitude of the process and to suggest approaches to mitigate the level of … upcoding. Financial estimates for upcoding in traditional Medicare (Medicare Parts A and B), are highly variable, in part …

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital … of the discouraging effect of travel distance. We provide evidence that patients are responsive to changes in waiting ….17 and - 1.38, respectively. Patients' personal characteristics significantly influence how they trade off distance and …

. Patients have little incentive to shop for low-priced alternatives because they do not bear the full cost of their health care … coinsurance. For patients affected by the policy, we find that the likelihood of purchasing a 20% coinsurance drug decreases by 4 …

-level data. Profitability was assessed through hospital-level net financial results excluding deficit-covering payments. All … cases were assigned uniquely to a medically homogeneous service group or area, as determined by Swiss hospital capacity … 2015 to 2022, overall hospital profitability margins declined continuously, with public hospitals consistently reporting …

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … gynaecologists/obstetricians and orthopaedists randomly to four hypothetical video consultations, in which the patients show either a … patients' verbal critical attitude (which indicates patients' intention to take further steps), while keeping constant …

, and their extent, is crucial for understanding how hospital network dynamics affect healthcare delivery efficiency and … estimate a hospital-specific index for waiting times. This index served as the dependent variable in our analysis. We applied a … findings suggest that diversifying the organization of the NHS hospital network, particularly through contracts with private …

, discharges corresponding to patients who have completed their healing process in hospital and, on the other hand, discharges … resulting from patients who have been discharged too early and are therefore required to be readmitted to hospital. In the first …Background In this paper, we propose a novel model that allows us to understand the effect of hospital readmis- sions …

associated with post-traumatic stress disorder are not fully reimbursed. Male patients showed higher hospital costs associated …Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder is likely to affect clinical courses in the somatic hospital ward when … a somatic hospital and to analyze if reimbursement appropriately compensated additional costs. Methods: The study used …

We investigate the factors that influence the variance in hospital charges and inpatient care for kidney transplant … cases in the US. Using the AHRQ's (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) HCUP's (Hospital Cost and Utilization Project …) NIS (National Inpatient Sample) database, we find that variance in hospital charges and inpatient care is driven by …