Measuring Returns to Hospital Care: Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns
We consider whether hospitals that receive higher payments from Medicare improve patient outcomes, using exogenous variation in ambulance company assignment among patients who live near one another. Using Medicare data from 2002-10 on assignment across ambulance companies and New York State data fro...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press,
2017-06-26T18:09:10Z.
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