hospitals in the U.S. between 1985 and 1995. Results show that a hospital is less likely to adopt the technology if HMO market …

cardiac services on hospital and treatment choices. The model is estimated using a sample of Medicare beneficiaries from the …Efforts to regionalize cardiac services can increase access costs for patients. This study is the first to quantify … as minimum volume thresholds, need to consider that patients will respond to changes in both dimensions. …

Efforts to regionalize cardiac services can increase access costs for patients. This study quantifies this trade off by … estimating the effects of changes in the regulation of hospital services on treatments and outcomes. A demand model for surgery … choice of hospital and treatment. The results indicate that mortality is relatively insensitive to moderate changes in policy …

. Second, a double moral hazard model is developed. Here, the patient’s actions influence health outcome and cannot be …

, hospital services, and physician services. We will discuss the potential implications of the restructuring of the health care …

. Critics fear that if informational asymmetries inhibit patients from directly assessing the quality of care provided by their … asymmetry¾physicians perceive quality of care perfectly, and patients don't perceive it at all. We find that even in this stark …