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How Much Is Enough? Efficiency and Medicare Spending in the Last Six Months of Life

In: The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Institutions

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Jonathan S. Skinner
John Wennberg

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This chapter was published in: Jonathan S. Skinner & John Wennberg The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Institutions, , pages 169-194, 2000.

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David M. Cutler, 2000. "The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Institutions," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number cutl00-1, Julio.
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  1. Friedman, Bernard & Pauly, Mark, 1981. "Cost Functions for a Service Firm with Variable Quality and Stochastic Demand: The Case of Hospitals," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 63(4), pages 620-24, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. David M. Cutler & Mark McClellan & Joseph P. Newhouse & Dahlia Remler, 1996. "Are Medical Prices Declining?," NBER Working Papers 5750, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. David M. Cutler & Jill R. Horwitz, 1998. "Converting Hospitals from Not-for-profit to For-profit Status," NBER Working Papers 6672, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Breyer, Friedrich, 1987. "The specification of a hospital cost function : A comment on the recent literature," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 6(2), pages 147-157, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Craig William Perry & Harvey S. Rosen, 2001. "Insurance and the Utilization of Medical Services Among the Self-Employed," NBER Working Papers 8490, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Louise Sheiner, 1999. "Health care costs, wages, and aging," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 1999-19, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.). [Downloadable!]
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