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April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The emphasis that hospitals place on cutting-edge technology and niche specialty services to attract physicians and patients has set the stage for health care's most recent competitive trend: an increased level of targeted, geographic service expansion to "capture" well-insured patients.
July 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Policy briefs examine what health heform means for hospitals.
January 19, 2011 | Commentary
Short hospital stays, rehospitalizations and transitions among health care settings have become increasingly common. Financial policy changes should be implemented to incentivize longer hospital stays and better-coordinated post-discharge care.
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article examines the theoretical and empirical literature on cost shifting since 1996, synthesizes the predominant findings, suggests their implications for the future of health care costs, and puts them in the current policy context.
September 1, 2010 | Commentary
Providing financial incentives to hospitals to improve quality is increasingly common, yet little is known about its effect on hospitals that provide care for poorer patients. In this study, researchers looked at how financial incentives affected those hospitals serving larger, poorer populations.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Providing financial incentives to hospitals to improve quality is increasingly common, yet little is known about its effect on hospitals that provide care for poorer patients. In this study, researchers looked at how financial incentives affected those hospitals serving larger, poorer populations.
April 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study measured changes in the quality of care following adoption of electronic health records among a national sample of U.S. hospitals from 2004 to 2007.
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Nonprofit hospitals in Maryland report "community benefits" according to requirements similar to those of the Internal Revenue Service's Schedule H. Maryland's experience with community benefit reporting will likely be instructive to hospitals filing the new Schedule H in 2010.
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study determined that prescription drugs do have a positive effect on hospital expenditures by either preventing hospitalization or resulting in cost savings once patients have been admitted.
April 1, 2007 | Journal Article
What Explains the Different Findings in the Empirical Literature?