market. We depart from the standard healthcare service pricing model and allow physicians to (partially) adjust patient … quantities supports the hypothesis that physicians respond to insurer price differences: A 10% increase in private prices …

effectiveness of these incentives, however, depends both on physicians' price sensitivity and their knowledge of patient prices. We … information. Applying this model to diabetes care, we find that physicians lack detailed price information and are more price …-elastic than full-information models imply. We predict that providing physicians detailed information on prices at the point of …

We provide an in-depth analysis of the price effects of two hospital mergers that occurred in the north shore suburbs … of Chicago in early 2000: Evanston Northwestern Healthcare's (ENH) purchase of Highland Park Hospital (HPH) and the … merger of St. Therese Medical Center (STMC) and Victory Memorial Hospital (VMH). Using standard difference …

The Federal Trade Commission initiated a Hospital Merger Retrospective Project in 2002 to analyze the effects of … Columbia Cape Fear Memorial Hospital ("Cape Fear") in Wilmington, North Carolina. In this paper, we employ patient-level claims …

Using a spatial competition framework with three ex ante identical hospitals, we study the effects of a hospital merger … on quality, price and welfare. The merging hospitals always reduce quality, but the non-merging hospital responds by … responsiveness to quality is sufficiently low, whereas the non-merging hospital always increases its price. If prices are endogenous …