Do hospitals cross-subsidize?

Volume: 37, Pages: 198 - 218
Published: Sep 1, 2014
Abstract
Despite its salience as a regulatory tool to ensure the delivery of unprofitable medical services, cross-subsidization of services within hospital systems has been notoriously difficult to detect and quantify. We use repeated shocks to a profitable service in the market for hospital-based medical care to test for cross-subsidization of unprofitable services. Using patient-level data from general short-term hospitals in Arizona and Colorado...
Paper Details
Title
Do hospitals cross-subsidize?
Published Date
Sep 1, 2014
Volume
37
Pages
198 - 218
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