| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21513 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21513 |
| Does Health Plan Generosity Enhance Hospital Market Power? | |
| Laurence C. Baker; M. Kate Bundorf; Daniel P. Kessler | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-08-31 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We test whether the generosity of employer-sponsored health insurance facilitates the exercise of market power by hospitals. We construct indices of health plan generosity and the price and volume of hospital services using data from Truven MarketScan for 601 counties from 2001-2007. We use variation in the industry and union status of covered workers within a county over time to identify the causal effects of generosity. Although OLS estimates fail to reject the hypothesis that generosity facilitates the exercise of hospital market power, IV estimates show a statistically significant and economically important positive effect of plan generosity on hospital prices in uncompetitive markets, but not in competitive markets. Our results suggest that most of the aggregate effect of hospital market structure on prices found in previous work may be coming from areas with generous plans. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21513 |
| 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/579188 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Laurence C. Baker,M. Kate Bundorf,Daniel P. Kessler. Does Health Plan Generosity Enhance Hospital Market Power?. 2015. |
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