This research focuses on the allocation of available hospital resources to different disease types to better serve the … of resources that each hospital should devote to different disease classes. The objective is to maximize the customer …-temporal pattern of disease incidence within the geographic area, and it incorporates the driving distance to a hospital as well as the …

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 …