program implementation relative to a comparison group of beneficiaries who were not exposed to the V-BID. Our findings suggest …

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 study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that … separates variation in average utilization of Medicare beneficiaries due to physicians, non-physician supply side factors, and … patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in …

estimates of hospital ownership type consist of the impact of differential patient case mix (selection) and hospital cost …

, nonprofit hospitals maintained on average more than three times as many beds per hospital as their for-profit counterparts …; following a monotonic decline in relative size, by 2000, the average nonprofit hospital was only 32% larger than the typical for …-profit hospital. Hospital level data for the United States indicate that the convergence was driven primarily by industry-wide effects …

link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy …