期刊
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
卷 58, 期 -, 页码 110-122出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.01.004
关键词
Hospital choice; Patient welfare; Medicare
资金
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) [1R01HS018424-01A1]
- Fondecyt [1130011]
This paper seeks to understand the impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program on hospital choice and consumer welfare for rural residents. The Flex Program created a new class of hospital, the Critical Access Hospital (CAH), which receives more generous Medicare reimbursements in return for limits on capacity and length of stay. We find that conversion to CAH status resulted in a 4.7 percent drop in inpatient admissions to participating hospitals, almost all of which was driven by factors other than capacity constraints. The Flex Program increased consumer welfare if it prevented the exit of at least 6.5 percent of randomly selected converting hospitals. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据