A recent Medicare bundled payment pilot program gives a single health care provider a financial incentive to keep total payments to all providers during a multi-week episode of patient care under a certain value. We estimate the effect of the pilot for knee and hip replacements using data from...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Star Ratings methodology for publicly evaluating hospitals uses a latent variable model that is based on the presumption of a single, but unobservable, hospital-specific quality factor shared across a group of performance measures. Performance...

We consider a release manager who sequentially releases new versions of her product, and ask how she should account for the overall level of competitive intensity in her industry. We model the problem within a combinatorial framework in which new releases consist of discrete features. Motivated...