Despite more than a decade of benchmarking and public reporting of quality problems in the
health care sector, changes in medical practice have been slow to materialize. To accelerate …

Context: Hospital‐physician relationships (HPRs) are an important area of academic
research, given their impact on hospitals' financial success. HPRs also are at the center of …

We investigate whether physicians' financial incentives influence health care supply,
technology diffusion, and resulting patient outcomes. In 1997, Medicare consolidated the …

We analyze Medicare's influence on private insurers' payments for physicians' services.
Using a large administrative change in reimbursements for surgical versus medical care, we …

In most US health insurance markets, plans face strong incentives to upcode the patient
diagnoses they report to the regulator, as these affect the risk-adjusted payments that plans …

This paper investigates the effects of market-wide changes in health insurance by examining
the single largest change in health insurance coverage in American history: the introduction …

We examine the effect of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on
substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization and financing. We combine data on …

In April 2006, Massachusetts passed legislation aimed at achieving near-universal health
insurance coverage. The key features of this legislation were a model for national health …

We study the impact of the introduction of one of the major pillars of the social insurance
system in the United States: the introduction of Medicare in 1965. Our results suggest that, in …

In this paper, we explore the role patient incentives play in slowing healthcare spending
growth. Evidence suggests that while patients do indeed respond to financial incentives …