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  • Are For-Profit Hospital Conversions Harmful to Patients and to Medicare?
    Picone, Gabriel; Chou, Shin-Yi; Sloan, Frank (RAND Journal of Economics, 2002)
    We examine how changes in hospital ownership to and from for-profit status affect quality and Medicare payments per hospital stay. We hypothesize that hospitals converting to for-profit ownership boost postacquisition ...
  • Does Higher Hospital Cost Imply Higher Quality of Care?
    Picone, Gabriel A.; Sloan, Frank; Chou, Shin-Yi; Taylor, Donald Jr. (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003)
    This study investigates whether higher input use per stay in the hospital (treatment intensity) and longer length of stay improve outcomes of care. We allow for endogeneity of intensity and length of stay by estimating a ...