Class 5: Basics of Hospital Pricing

In this module, we’ll introduce the idea of “selection on observables” and the different ways to exploit that idea to make casual statements. We’ll do this in the context of hospital pricing, the research question being whether and to what extent hospitals receiving a financial penalty also raise their prices.

Readings and other links

Links to papers are listed alongside the full reference. PDFs of each paper are also available on Canvas.

• Data for this module:
  • Hospital Cost Report Information System (HCRIS) repository
  • See also a similar repository here from Adam Sacarny