In this paper we examine empirically the effect of integration on Medicare payment and rehospitalization. We use 2005-2013 data on Medicare beneficiaries receiving PAC in the U.S. to examine integration between hospitals and the two most common post-acute care settings: skilled nursing...

We study capacity rationing by servers facing differentiated customer classes using data from the Veterans Health Administration, which is the largest integrated healthcare system in the US. Using over 11 million health encounters over two years in which the system was capacity constrained, our...

We investigate whether the unemployment fueled by the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the United States has impacted population access to statin medications. Our empirical strategy relies on comparing statin sales between states where, given the occupational distribution of their workforce,...

"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. We develop a formal model to show how integration solves task allocation problems between organizations and test the predictions of the...