Search Results - "Dranove, David"

Start spreading the news: A structural estimate of the effects of New York hospital report cards by Dranove, David, Sfekas, Andrew

“…Research on the effects of publicly reported hospital quality report cards on patient market shares is mixed. Higher-ranking hospitals do not consistently…”
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Hospital consolidation and costs: another look at the evidence by Dranove, David, Lindrooth, Richard

“…We investigate whether pairwise hospital consolidation leads to cost savings. We use a unified empirical methodology to assess both systems and mergers. Our…”
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Quality Disclosure and Certification: Theory and Practice by Dranove, David, Jin, Ginger Zhe

“…This essay reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on quality disclosure and certification. After comparing quality disclosure with other quality…”
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Uncompensated Care Decreased At Hospitals In Medicaid Expansion States But Not At Hospitals In Nonexpansion States by Dranove, David, Garthwaite, Craig, Ody, Christopher

“…One pillar of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was its expected impact on the growing burden of uncompensated care costs for the uninsured at hospitals. However,…”
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Employed for Higher Pay? How Medicare Payment Rules Affect Hospital Employment of Physicians by Dranove, David, Ody, Christopher

“…Hospitals employ an increasing number of physicians and bill for a growing share of outpatient procedures. We exploit a plausibly exogenous increase in…”
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Physician Practice Consolidation Driven By Small Acquisitions, So Antitrust Agencies Have Few Tools To Intervene by Capps, Cory, Dranove, David, Ody, Christopher

“…The growing concentration of physician markets throughout the United States has been raising antitrust concerns, yet the Department of Justice and the Federal…”
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The effect of hospital acquisitions of physician practices on prices and spending by Capps, Cory, Dranove, David, Ody, Christopher

“…During the past decade, U.S. hospitals have acquired a large number of physician practices. For example, from 2007 to 2013, hospitals acquired nearly 10% of…”
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Competition in health care markets by Dranove, David

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Does consumer demand pull scientifically novel drug innovation? by Dranove, David, Garthwaite, Craig, Hermosilla, Manuel

“…Prior literature shows that stronger consumer demand leads to increased pharmaceutical R&D. However, how strong these “demand‐pull” effects are for more…”
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Is Managed Care Leading to Consolidation in Health-care Markets? by David, Dranove, Simon, Carol J., White, William D.

“…Objective. To determine the extent to which managed care has led to consolidation among hospitals and physicians. Data Sources. We use data from the American…”
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The Returns to Medical Inventions by Dranove, David, Garthwaite, Craig, Wu, Bingxiao

“…Medical innovation is perhaps the most important driver of health care spending and quality. Economists have studied pharmaceutical innovation for decades, and…”
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Insurance access and demand response: Pricing and welfare implications by Besanko, David, Dranove, David, Garthwaite, Craig

“…We present a model in which health insurance allows liquidity-constrained patients access to otherwise unaffordable treatments. A monopolist’s…”
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A Dose of Managed Care: Controlling Drug Spending in Medicaid by Dranove, David, Ody, Christopher, Starc, Amanda

“…We study the effect of privatizing Medicaid drug benefits on drug prices and utilization. Drug spending would decrease by 21.3 percent if private insurers…”
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How do nonprofits respond to negative wealth shocks? The impact of the 2008 stock market collapse on hospitals by Dranove, David, Garthwaite, Craig, Ody, Christopher

“…The theory of cost shifting posits that nonprofit firms "share the pain" of negative financial shocks with their stakeholders, for example, by raising prices…”
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The economics of medical procedure innovation by Dranove, David, Garthwaite, Craig, Heard, Christopher, Wu, Bingxiao

“…This paper explores the economic incentives for medical procedure innovation. Using a proprietary dataset on billing code applications for emerging medical…”
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Assessing the Impact of Total Quality Management and Organizational Culture on Multiple Outcomes of Care for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Patients by Shortell, Stephen M., Jones, Robert H., Rademaker, Alfred W., Gillies, Robin R., Dranove, David S., Edward F. X. Hughes, Budetti, Peter P., Katherine S. E. Reynolds, Huang, Cheng-Fang

“…Objectives. To assess the impact of total quality management (TQM) and organizational culture on a comprehensive set of endpoints of care for coronary artery…”
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Health spending slowdown is mostly due to economic factors, not structural change in the health care sector by Dranove, David, Garthwaite, Craig, Ody, Christopher

“…The source of the recent slowdown in health spending growth remains unclear. We used new and unique data on privately insured people to estimate the effect of…”
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A Competitive Process for Procuring Health Services: A review of Principles with an Application to Cataract Services by Dranove, David, Capps, Cory, Dafny, Leemore

“…Government agencies employ a variety of mechanisms for securing goods and services from the private sector. These include posting prices, reimbursing for…”
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Do report cards tell consumers anything they don't already know? The case of Medicare HMOs by Dafny, Leemore, Dranove, David

“…Estimated responses to report cards may reflect learning about quality that would have occurred in their absence ("market-based learning"). Using panel data on…”
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Do Important Drugs Reach the Market Sooner? by Dranove, David, Meltzer, David

“…Since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Amendments of 1962, the average time from a drug's first worldwide patent application to its approval by the FDA…”
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