I use the Medicare Part D prescription drug insurance market to examine the dynamics of firm interaction with consumers …

estimates to evaluate the effects of hospital mergers. We find that MCO bargaining restrains hospital prices significantly. The … model demonstrates the potential impact of coinsurance rates, which allow MCOs to partly steer patients towards cheaper … hospitals. We show that increasing patient coinsurance tenfold would reduce prices by 16%. We find that a proposed hospital …

This paper seeks to understand the impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program on rural resident … hospital choice and welfare. The Flex program created a new class of hospital, the Critical Access Hospital (CAH), which … receives more generous reimbursement in return for limits on capacity and length of stay. A hospital that converted to CAH …

both universally licensed and provide complementary services to patients, but may also be substitutes as service providers …

On January 1, 2006, the federal government began providing insurance coverage for Medicare recipients' prescription … drug expenditures through a new program known as Medicare Part D. Rather than setting pharmaceutical prices itself, the … Medicare recipient allowed to choose from one of the private insurers with a contract to offer coverage in her geographic …

regarding the impact of the 2006 implementation of the Medicare Part D benefits on pharmaceutical prices and utilization, and …

influencing the size and bargaining power of health insurers. We test for this external effect in the context of Medicare Part D …