Hospital cost shifting revisited: new evidence from the balanced budget act of 1997
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Keywords
Cost shifting; Balanced Budget Act; Medicare; Hospital pricing; I11; L33; H44;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- L33 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprise and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out
- H44 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Goods: Mixed Markets
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