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 …

introduction of prescription drug coverage for older individuals via Medicare Part D. For policy makers who design such a market … Medicare Part D. We first analyze how well the hypothetical choice data predict willingness to pay and market shares at the …

We study the Medicare Part D prescription drug insurance program as a bellwether for designs of private, non … of administrative data on medical claims in Medicare Part D suggests that fewer than 25% of individuals enroll in plans … that are ex ante as good as the least cost plan specified by the Plan Finder tool made available to seniors by the Medicare …

introduction of prescription drug coverage for older individuals via Medicare Part D. For policy makers who design such a market … Medicare Part D. We first analyze how well the hypothetical choice data predict willingness to pay and market shares at the …

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