Medicare has increased the use of performance pay incentives for hospitals, with the goal of increasing care … empirical evidence by using novel operations and claims data from a large, independent home health care firm with the Hospital … reduce re-hospitalizations passed through from hospitals to the firm at least for some types of patients, since it provided …

.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and … providers respond. We investigate hospice programs' responses to a cap in the Medicare hospice benefit on their average annual … subsequent live discharges. On the extensive margin, we find that cap liabilities are associated with terminations of Medicare …

aggressively test and treat as many patients as possible in order to maximize the benefits of this agreement. Using a number of …