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The effect of urban hospital closure on marketsRichard C Lindrooth
Department of Health Administration and Policy, Medical University of South Carolina, 19 Hagood Road, P O Box 250807, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
J Health Econ 22:691-712. 2003..Overall, we estimate that costs per adjusted admission declined by 2-4% for all patients and about 6-8% for patients who would have been treated at the closed hospital...- Research on the hospital market: recent advances and continuing data needsRichard C Lindrooth
Department of Health Administration and Policy, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Inquiry 45:19-29. 2008..This paper describes recent advances in our understanding of hospital competition and speculates about what we could learn if additional data were available... - The effect of Medicaid family planning expansions on unplanned birthsRichard C Lindrooth
Department of Health Administration and Policy, Center for Health Economic and Policy Studies, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Womens Health Issues 17:66-74. 2007..Medicaid covers nearly 50% of all family planning services nationally. Between 1994 and 2001, 11 states implemented demonstration programs that expand coverage of family planning beyond the federally mandated minimum coverage levels... - The effect of distance to provider on employee response to changes in mental health benefitsRichard C Lindrooth
Department of Health Administration and Policy, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
Health Econ 15:1133-41. 2006..These results lend further support to the notion that geographic dispersion of providers should be an important consideration when forming a selective contracting network... - Do religious nonprofit and for-profit organizations respond differently to financial incentives? The hospice industryRichard C Lindrooth
Department of Health Administration and Policy, Center for Health Economic and Policy Studies, Medical University of South Carolina, 151 Rutledge Avenue, Building B, PO Box 250961, Charleston, SC 29525, USA
J Health Econ 26:342-57. 2007..Incentives for efficiency could be strengthened by a Medicare pricing system that replaced the current flat per diem payment with one that reflected the high costs at the beginning and end of hospice stay and the lower costs in between... - The effect of expanded mental health benefits on treatment initiation and specialist utilizationRichard C Lindrooth
Department of Health Administration and Policy, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1092-107. 2005..01). CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that the benefit change increased initiation for mental health treatment overall and encouraged the use of nonphysician specialty mental health providers... - The effect of changes in hospital reimbursement on nurse staffing decisions at safety net and nonsafety net hospitalsRichard C Lindrooth
Department of Health Administration and Policy, Medical University of South Carolina, 151 Rutledge Ave, Building B, P.O. Box 250961, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Health Serv Res 41:701-20. 2006..In contrast, safety net hospitals did not respond to the provisions of the BBA by reducing staffing ratios. This conclusion is tempered by the fact that we have few safety net hospitals in the sample... - Does prospective payment reduce inpatient length of stay?Edward C Norton
Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599 7411, USA
Health Econ 11:377-87. 2002..16 and 0.20. The results were generally robust for short- and long stayers, and for persons admitted early and late after the change in payment mechanism. The model controlled for hospital fixed effects and individual random effects... - Does the patient's payer matter in hospital patient safety?: a study of urban hospitalsJan P Clement
Department of Health Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298 0203, USA
Med Care 45:131-8. 2007..However, research concerning how this may affect quality of care has produced mixed results. Until recently, the ability to study changes in patient safety and payment has been limited... - The influence of health policy and market factors on the hospital safety netGloria J Bazzoli
Department of Health Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1008 E. Clay Street, PO Box 980203, Richmond, VA 23298-0203, USA
Health Serv Res 41:1159-80. 2006..They raise concern given continuing state budget crises plus the focus of recent federal deficit reduction legislation intended to cut Medicaid expenditures... - The effects of expanded mental health benefits on treatment costsAnthony T Lo Sasso
Division of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1603 W Taylor, Chicago IL 60660, USA
J Ment Health Policy Econ 9:25-33. 2006..This study examines the impact that corporate benefit policies can have on mental health treatment costs... - An update on safety-net hospitals: coping with the late 1990s and early 2000sGloria J Bazzoli
Department of Health Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:1047-56. 2005..Non-safety-net hospitals trimmed certain services commonly used by the indigent; this may point to future reductions in access. We examine the implications of these findings for the future of the safety net... - Steering patients to safer hospitals? The effect of a tiered hospital network on hospital admissionsDennis P Scanlon
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Health Serv Res 43:1849-68. 2008..To determine if a tiered hospital benefit and safety incentive shifted the distribution of admissions toward safer hospitals... - Expanded mental health benefits and outpatient depression treatment intensityAnthony T Lo Sasso
Division of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Med Care 44:366-72. 2006..Despite this, recent policy efforts have focused on improving access to behavioral health treatment... - Hospital financial condition and operational decisions related to the quality of hospital careGloria J Bazzoli
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Med Care Res Rev 64:148-68. 2007..Given the findings of earlier studies, these results suggest that poor outcomes may in part result from deterioration in supporting infrastructure and organizational processes... - The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and U.S. hospital operationsGloria J Bazzoli
Department of Health Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1008 E Clay St, Grant House, P O Box 980203, Richmond, VA 23298 0203, USA
Inquiry 41:401-17. 2004..However, during PPS implementation hospitals experienced declining inpatient use and growing profit margins, whereas post-BBA hospitals experienced growing inpatient use and declining margins...
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- The Cause and Effect of Psychiatric Facility ClosureRichard Lindrooth; Fiscal Year: 2007..In contrast, private facility closure occurs when the facility is no longer financially viable and thus may or may not be a function of the quality and quantity of alternatives in the community. ..