Insurance, Hospitalization

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Competition between non-profit and for-profit health insurers. 
  • Cross-subsidies and payment for hospital care. 
  • Does prospective payment reduce inpatient length of stay? 
  • Hospital care for the "self-pay" patient. 
  • Hospital cost shifting. 
  • Hospital philanthropy in the future. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in time to acute reperfusion therapy for patients hospitalized with myocardial infarction. 
  • Utilization of hospital services: the roles of teaching, case mix, and reimbursement.