Module 3, Part 3: Competition and Prices
This week we continue our coverage of hospital pricing, focusing on the role of competition and mergers.
Objectives for this week
- Explain the role of competition on pricing and describe how we measure competition in health care
Activities
- Review data from the Hospital Cost Report Information System (HCRIS)
- Discuss Zack Cooper et al. “The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 134, no. 1 (2019): 51–107.
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