TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baker,Laurence C.
AU  - Bundorf,M.Kate
AU  - Kessler,Daniel P.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - The Effect of Hospital/Physician Integration on Hospital Choice
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - August 2015; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - In this paper, we estimate how hospital ownership of physicians' practices affects their patients' hospital choices.  We match data on the hospital admissions of Medicare beneficiaries, including the identity of their admitting physician, with data on the identity of the owner of the admitting physician's practice.  We find that a hospital's ownership of an admitting physician's practice dramatically increases the probability that the physician's patients will choose the owning hospital.  We also find that patients are more likely to choose a high-cost, low-quality hospital when their admitting physician's practice is owned by that hospital
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w21497
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w21497
ER  -