| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18894 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18894 |
| Can Amputation Save the Hospital? The Impact of the Medicare Rural Flexibility Program on Demand and Welfare | |
| Gautam Gowrisankaran; Claudio Lucarelli; Philip Schmidt-Dengler; Robert Town | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-03-14 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | 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. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Industrial Organization ; Market Structure and Firm Performance ; Nonprofits |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18894 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576569 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gautam Gowrisankaran,Claudio Lucarelli,Philip Schmidt-Dengler,et al. Can Amputation Save the Hospital? The Impact of the Medicare Rural Flexibility Program on Demand and Welfare. 2013. |
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| w18894.pdf（316KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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