Plausibly Exogenous [1300] - Inpatient Admission (08/23/2023)
LHS variable
Medicare payment rates
RHS variable
Price of an inpatient admission
Source of Exogenous Variation
2008 policy reform in which Medicare revised its hospital payment system to better reflect patients’ severity of illness
- Gross, Sacarny, Shi, and Silver (2022), “Regulated Revenues and Hospital Behavior: Evidence from a Medicare Overhaul”