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 …

Upcoding in Medicare has been a topic of interest to economists and policy makers for nearly 40 years. While upcoding … of Medicare is to inform policy makers on the magnitude of the process and to suggest approaches to mitigate the level of … upcoding. Financial estimates for upcoding in traditional Medicare (Medicare Parts A and B), are highly variable, in part …

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 …

We assess the performance of three hospital merger simulation methods by means of a Monte Carlo experiment. We first … specify a rich theoretical model of hospital markets and use it to generate “true” price effects of a large number of hospital …

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 …

.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and … providers respond. We investigate hospice programs' responses to a cap in the Medicare hospice benefit on their average annual … subsequent live discharges. On the extensive margin, we find that cap liabilities are associated with terminations of Medicare …