the provision of charity care. We examine this issue using data on all hospital discharges in California between 1988 and …'s charity caseload. However, these public hospitals also take on larger shares of most other types of patients. At the hospital …

managed care enrollment significantly reduces hospital cost growth. While some of this effect is offset by increased spending … on physicians, we generally find a significant reduction in total spending as well. In analyzing the sources of hospital …

trace out the effects of greater managed care penetration on hospital utilization and spending throughout the health care … system. We find that when more seniors enroll in Medicare managed care, hospital costs decline for all seniors and for …

whether patients discharged to hospital-based SNFs have better outcomes. In unadjusted comparisons, hospital-based SNF … solved the problem of differential selection into hospital-based and freestanding SNFs by using differential distance from … home to the nearest hospital with a SNF relative to the distance from home to the nearest hospital without a SNF as an …

population. We find support for both sides of this debate. Markets experiencing entry by a cardiac specialty hospital have lower … spending for cardiac care without significantly worse clinical outcomes. In markets with a specialty hospital, however …

We use data from California to document and offer possible explanations for the sharp increase in hospital prices … the change in hospital market concentration. For example, the greatest price rises came from hospitals in monopoly and … hospital regulations, the seismic retrofit mandate and the mandatory nurse staffing ratio affected hospital costs. However, the …

terms of increased access to hospital care for newly eligible children, so that there is an overall 10% rise in child …

for surgical ones. We further use a 2008 policy where Medicare implemented financial penalties for certain hospital …

for diseases with the greatest profitability and demand elasticity. Most empirical evidence regarding hospital competition … – ambulances usually take patients to the closest (or affiliated) hospital. In this paper, we derive a theoretically appropriate ….S. regional hospital markets to instrument for market concentration. We then estimate the model using risk-adjusted Medicare data …