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 … for each hospital-PAC pair in a market to test how changes in integration impact patient outcomes. Second, we use an …

also explains state-level differences in quality of hospital care. The quality of Medicare beneficiary hospital care was … the disability and that states that are disproportionately African-American have a lower quality of hospital care. This … paper uses quality of care data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to determine whether disability …

Medicare uses a pay-for-performance program to reimburse hospitals. One of the key input measures in the performance … formula is patient satisfaction with their hospital care. Physicians and hospitals, however, have raised concerns especially …-prescription of opioids has been cited as a cause of current opioid crisis in the US. Due to these concerns, Medicare stopped using …

Competing hospitals may not only use quality of service to attract patients but also their specialization profile … and (ii) preference for a good match between patients' needs and hospitals' specialization profile. Moreover, we derive … attraktiver für Patienten zu werden. Wir wenden ein Hotelling Duopol mit vertikaler und horizontaler Differenzierung an, wobei …

Objective. To assess relationships between changes in Medicare Advantage (MA) payment rates and Medicare beneficiary …. Data. State Inpatient Database discharge abstracts from Arizona, Florida, and New York merged with administrative Medicare … Medicare Advantage payment rates and rates of ambulatory care sensitive and elective hospitalizations amongst Medicare …

impact on individual well-being. Health and hospital services have historically been provided through centralised, highly … hospital services. On the demand side, governments have sought to improve the availability of information about the performance … of health care services and providers and support more informed choices by patients. At the same time, Governments have …

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

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital … of the discouraging effect of travel distance. We provide evidence that patients are responsive to changes in waiting ….17 and - 1.38, respectively. Patients' personal characteristics significantly influence how they trade off distance and …