Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care
In: NBER Working Paper No. w24035
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In: American economic review, Band 106, Heft 5, S. 383-387
ISSN: 1944-7981
Healthcare and education exhibit wide variation in spending that is loosely associated with outcomes. We study supply-side explanations for such variation in in healthcare, and extend this discussion to how it might apply to education. In both sectors, variation in risk-adjusted rates could arise from some providers or educators doing too much (overuse) or others are using too little (underuse). Alternatively, the production function varies across providers and educators, so that hospitals and educators with higher returns to treatment deliver more because of comparative advantage. We discuss how a prototypical Roy model can separate these explanations.
In: NBER Working Paper No. w18038
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w16382
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We explore the effectiveness of matching grants when lower levels of government can expropriate some of the funds for other uses. Using data on the Medicaid Disproportionate Share program, we identify states that were most able to expropriate funds. Payments to public hospitals in these states were systematically diverted and had no significant impact on patient mortality. Payments that were not expropriated were associated with significant declines in patient mortality. Overall, subsidies were an effective mechanism for improving outcomes for the poor, but the impact was limited by the ability of state and local governments to divert the targeted funds.
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The federal government spends billions of dollars each year on programs designed to increase the resources available to hospitals that serve the poor. This paper explores the intended and unintended effects of such targeted funds. First, how do these funds distort the behavior of state and local governments who wish to appropriate the funds for other uses? Second, to the extent that these funds do increase resources in the targeted hospitals, do patients benefit? We use the rapid and uneven growth in Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments across states and hospitals to answer these questions. We identify states that were most able to appropriate DSH funds and show that, while DSH payments to public hospitals in these states were systematically diverted, DSH payments to other hospitals and in other states were not diverted. Additional resources that were made available to hospitals (rather than appropriated by the state) were associated with significant declines in infant and post-heart attack mortality. A range of evidence suggests that these improvements were due to better hospital care. Overall, our analysis implies that public subsidies can be an effective mechanism for improving medical care and outcomes for the poor, but that the impact is limited by the ability of state and local government to divert the targeted funds.
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w10440
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w10811
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w14865
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w14607
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In: Journal of political economy, Band 115, Heft 1, S. 103-140
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: NBER Working Paper No. w7324
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In: The Rand journal of economics, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 171
ISSN: 1756-2171
In: Brookings-Wharton papers on urban affairs, Band 2003, Heft 1, S. 83-137
ISSN: 1533-4449
In: NBER Working Paper No. w7258
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