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Hospital Choices, Hospital Prices and Financial Incentives to Physicians
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2013
unpublished
We investigate whether patients whose physicians have a ...nancial incentive to control costs receive care at lower-priced hospitals than similar patients. Using California hospital discharge data from 2003, we ...rst estimate multinomial logit demand models that include price in the choice equation. We obtain price coe¢ cients which di¤er in sign with the severity of the patient's condition on entering the hospital. We then develop an estimator based on inequalities that addresses endogeneity
doi:10.3386/w19333
fatcat:a745j7m44bgmdgsn5c67kffg4i