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 …

by horizontal hospital mergers as an instrument, we show that rising prices raise the cost of labor by increasing …

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 …

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 …

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 …

discharge have poorer outcomes, as well as higher downstream spending once conditioning on initial hospital spending …

estimates of hospital ownership type consist of the impact of differential patient case mix (selection) and hospital cost …