document an anomaly in estimation: for any plausible estimate of the opportunity cost of time, the price of hospital service is …

Hospital administrators have expressed concern that ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) lower the profitability of … paper estimates the effects of ASC prevalence on hospital surgical volume and profit margins using hospital and year fixed … effects models with a variety of robustness checks. We show that ASC entry only appears to influence a hospital’s outpatient …

Many countries have reformed hospital reimbursement policies to provide stronger incentives for quality and cost …