California has heavily concentrated hospital, physician, and health insurance markets, but
their current structure and functioning is not well understood. We assessed consolidation …

Importance Studies suggest that academic medical centers (AMCs) have better outcomes
than nonteaching hospitals. However, whether AMCs have spillover benefits for patients …

The US health-care system in based on markets, but those markets do not perform as well
as they could or should. One of the major reasons for this is lack of competition. There has …

Mergers and acquisitions in healthcare are increasingly leading to changes in firm
management. This paper studies how a change in firm management impacts clinical …

We consider whether hospital acquisitions of physicians lead to improved clinical outcomes
for Medicare patients aged 65 and older. The analysis combines 2005–2012 Medicare fee …

Background Given the uncertainty of US health care finances, an understanding of
reimbursement trends has become increasingly important in the field of cardiac surgery. We …

We study how competition between physicians affects the provision of medical care. In our
theoretical model, physicians are faced with a heterogeneous patient population, in which …

Examining the Impact of Health Care Consolidation Page 1 Examining the Impact of Health
Care Consolidation Statement before the Committee on Energy and Commerce Oversight and …

It is also notable that there is a great deal of overlap between the analysis and
recommendations in these pieces and recent reports by the Departments of Health and …

The dialysis industry is one of the most highly concentrated healthcare sectors in the United
States. Despite decades of growth in the number of patients with end‐stage renal disease …