| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21290 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21290 |
| Hospitals as Insurers of Last Resort | |
| Craig Garthwaite; Tal Gross; Matthew J. Notowidigdo | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-06-22 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | American hospitals are required to provide emergency medical care to the uninsured. We use previously confidential hospital financial data to study the resulting uncompensated care, medical care for which no payment is received. We use both panel-data methods and case studies from state-wide Medicaid disenrollments and find that the uncompensated care costs of hospitals increase in response to the size of the uninsured population. The results suggest that each additional uninsured person costs local hospitals $900 each year in uncompensated care. Similarly, the closure of a nearby hospital increases the uncompensated care costs of remaining hospitals. Increases in the uninsured population also lower hospital profit margins, which suggests that hospitals cannot simply pass along all increased costs onto privately insured patients. For-profit hospitals are less affected by these factors, suggesting that non-profit hospitals serve a unique role as part of the social insurance system. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21290 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578964 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Craig Garthwaite,Tal Gross,Matthew J. Notowidigdo. Hospitals as Insurers of Last Resort. 2015. |
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