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How Do Hospitals Respond to Price Changes? /

개인저자
Dafny, Leemore S.
수록페이지
1525-1547 p.
발행일자
2005.12.19
출판사
American Economic Association
초록
[영문]This paper examines hospital responses to changes in diagnosis-specific prices by exploiting a 1988 policy reform that generated large price changes for 43 percent of Medicare admissions. I find hospitals responded primarily by qqqquot;upcodingqqqquot; patients to diagnosis codes with the largest price increases. This response was particularly strong among for-profit hospitals. I find little evidence hospitals increased the volume of admissions differentially for diagnoses subject to the largest price increases, despite the financial incentive to do so. Neither did they increase intensity or quality of care in these diagnoses, suggesting hospitals do not compete for patients at the diagnosis level.