care that were aimed at containing hospital expenditure in the Italian region of Emilia Romagna during the period 2002 … public payments made to GPs), together with information on the utilisation of hospital services. We employ a difference …-in-difference specification to assess changes in expenditures for avoidable and total hospital admissions. We identify the treatment group with …

invigorate competition in the market and deploy other regulatory tools to address concerns associated with physician hospital …

understood about broader implications. We examine over 100 rural hospital closures spanning 2005-2017 to quantify the effects on … affected, and housing markets were already depressed prior to hospital closures …

The cost for hospital care depends on the quality of the service, on the personal characteristics of the patient, on … hospital care reimbursement systems will be discussed in a context where hospitals can observe patient severity and compete … is used by the provider to get more patients to his hospital. Spatial competition can then be used to curb the cost to …

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

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

, cross-sectional study of clinical and financial records for all ED visits to an urban, academic hospital in 2001 …, hospital inpatient length of stay, payment method, costs, and demographics. Results: Patients with three to 20 visits were more … likely to be admitted to the hospital than patients visiting once or twice. Patients visiting more than 20 times were less …

Narrow hospital networks have proliferated in health systems with managed care. We investigate the causal effect of …-network insurers reduce mortality because they steer patients to higher-quality providers and reduce hospital congestion. Results imply …