Medicare has increased the use of performance pay incentives for hospitals, with the goal of increasing care … empirical evidence by using novel operations and claims data from a large, independent home health care firm with the Hospital … reduce re-hospitalizations passed through from hospitals to the firm at least for some types of patients, since it provided …

.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and … providers respond. We investigate hospice programs' responses to a cap in the Medicare hospice benefit on their average annual … subsequent live discharges. On the extensive margin, we find that cap liabilities are associated with terminations of Medicare …

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

aggressively test and treat as many patients as possible in order to maximize the benefits of this agreement. Using a number of …

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

exogenous variation in Medicare payment rates generated by two policies under the Affordable Care Act: the Hospital Readmission … Reduction Program (HRRP) and the Hospital Value Based Purchasing (HVBP) program. We merge rich hospital-level information to … claim, or $82,000 per hospital, based on an average hospital penalty of nearly $146,000. We find the largest increases in …

certain patients. Using national data across all hospitals and patients, we study 258 hospital privatizations over the 2000 … understudied. We study potential trade-offs in the US hospital sector where public control declined by 42% over 1983-2019. Private … revenue per patient. However, this is partly achieved by differentially reducing the intake of low-income Medicaid patients …

low-cost users and this pressure may be increased by competition. We use data on hospital charges and cost … before and after the establishment of the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS). Comparing persons above and below age 65 … expensive patients. This raises important issues relevant to the use Of competition and prospective payment to control costs and …