) on healthcare usage in the face of negative health shocks. We use survey data from 2013-16 with quarterly observations on … greater ease of informal borrowing, helps households increase utilization of formal healthcare services in terms of visits to …

sources to study the relationship between access to care among the uninsured and the local healthcare market and safety net … associated with utilization of a variety of healthcare services. In urban areas, we find that the capacity of the safety net and … the pervasiveness and competitiveness of managed care have a significant relationship with healthcare utilization. Our …

We measure organizational concentration—the distribution of a patient's healthcare across organizations—to examine how … firm boundaries affect healthcare efficiency. First, when patients move to regions where outpatient visits are typically … concentrated within a small set of firms, their healthcare utilization falls. Second, for patients whose PCPs exit the market …

enforcing social distancing policies. However, the impact of these policies on healthcare utilization in the United States has … been largely unexplored. We examine the impact of county-level shelter in place ordinances on healthcare utilization using … healthcare utilization, much of these reductions would have occurred even in the absence of these policies …