Replication data for: How Do Hospitals Respond to Price Changes?

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Project Citation: 

Dafny, Leemore S. Replication data for: How Do Hospitals Respond to Price Changes? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2005. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116063V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary 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 "upcoding" 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.

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      I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health


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