We evaluate the consequences of narrow hospital networks in commercial health care markets. We develop a bargaining … negotiated hospital rates. Regulation prohibiting exclusion increases prices and premiums and lowers consumer welfare without …

The hospital industry is one of the most important industries in the U.S., and industry structure can have profound … Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946, known as the Hill-Burton program, on hospital capacity, organization of the … hospital industry, and utilization. We find that the program generated substantial increases in capacity and these changes were …

Hospital payment regulation has historically been introduced to meet multiple policy objectives. The primary objective … surcharge rates to insurance coverage rates and back to the quantities of uncompensated care in need of being financed. The …

hospital financial data to study the resulting uncompensated care, medical care for which no payment is received. We use both … person costs local hospitals $900 each year in uncompensated care. Similarly, the closure of a nearby hospital increases the … uncompensated care costs of remaining hospitals. Increases in the uninsured population also lower hospital profit margins, which …

pay-for-performance programs on private hospital payments using data on commercial insurance payments from a large, multi …The Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) and the Hospital Value Based Purchasing Program (HVBP), two … changes may translate into higher payments from commercial insurance patients. In this paper, we estimate the effects of these …

the ability of hospitals to extract documentation from physicians. Hospital adoption is robustly correlated with … generating survival for heart attack patients and using inexpensive survival-raising standards of care. Hospital …

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 …

estimates to evaluate the effects of hospital mergers. We find that MCO bargaining restrains hospital prices significantly. The … hospitals. We show that increasing patient coinsurance tenfold would reduce prices by 16%. We find that a proposed hospital … acquisition in Northern Virginia that was challenged by the Federal Trade Commission would have significantly raised hospital …