physician-patient relationship. We conduct an audit study in which a pair of simulated patients with identical flu …

use of pharmaceuticals for chronic diseases. We compare two large firms where nearly all employees were switched to CDHPs … to firms with conventional health insurance plans. In the first firm's CDHP, pharmaceuticals were subject to the … deductible, while in the second firm pharmaceuticals were exempt. Employees in the first firm shifted the timing of drug …

mandated minimum levels of patients per nurse in the hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already had … acceptable staffing levels, while others had nurse staffing ratios that did not meet mandated standards. Thus changes in hospital …

We examine some economic impacts of hospital admissions using an event study approach in two datasets: survey data from … the Health and Retirement Study, and hospital admissions data linked to consumer credit reports. We report estimates of … the impact of hospital admissions on out-of-pocket medical spending, unpaid medical bills, bankruptcy, earnings, income …

,000 patients who were randomly assigned to clinical teams from one of two academic institutions. One institution is among the top … medical schools in the country, while the other institution is ranked lower in the quality distribution. Patients treated by …. Those treated by physicians from the higher-ranked institution have 10-25% shorter and less expensive stays than patients …

substantial quot;offsetquot; effects in terms of increased hospital utilization in response to the combination of higher … copayments for physicians and prescription drugs. These offset effects are concentrated in patients for whom medical care is … insurance should be tied to underlying health status, with chronically ill patients facing lower cost-sharing. We also conclude …

We evaluate whether hospital adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) leads to increases in billing where … patients at EMR hospitals, consistent with EMRs decreasing coding costs for medical patients. Greater post-reform completeness …

. For patients with diagnoses of Pneumonia or Acute Myocardial Infarction, an additional day in the hospital could decrease … reducing mortality rates far exceed the cost of keeping these patients in the hospital for an additional day … as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality …

We examine whether obtaining prescription drug insurance through the Medicare Part D program affected hospital … Medicare Part D was associated with an 8% decrease in the number of hospital admissions, a 7% decrease in Medicare expenditures …