Medicare has increased the use of performance pay incentives for hospitals, with the goal of increasing care … empirical evidence by using novel operations and claims data from a large, independent home health care firm with the Hospital … reduce re-hospitalizations passed through from hospitals to the firm at least for some types of patients, since it provided …

This paper seeks to understand the impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program on hospital choice … and consumer welfare for rural residents. The Flex Program created a new class of hospital, the Critical Access Hospital … (CAH), which receives more generous Medicare reimbursements in return for limits on capacity and length of stay. We find …

This paper seeks to understand the impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program on hospital choice … and consumer welfare for rural residents. The Flex Program created a new class of hospital, the Critical Access Hospital … (CAH), which receives more generous Medicare reimbursements in return for limits on capacity and length of stay. We find …

constraints, SP caused all elderly patients more likely to only visit physicians, a result against its policy goal …

aggressively test and treat as many patients as possible in order to maximize the benefits of this agreement. Using a number of …