Accounting for variation in the quality of care is a major challenge for the assessment of hospital cost performance … and ii) explore how far judgement about hospital cost performance changes when health outcomes are accounted for. We use …

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 …

to properly identify the factors affecting the use of health services the most. As for hospital care, spillovers may …. Our paper focuses on a largely overlooked potential source of spillovers in hospital expenditure: the heterogeneity of …

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 …