The Effect of Certificate of Need Laws on All-Cause Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test how Certificate of Need laws affect all-cause mortality in the United States.

Data sources

The data of 1992-2011 all-cause mortality are from the Center for Disease Control's Compressed Mortality File; control variables are from the Current Population Survey, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and Area Health Resources File; and data on Certificate of Need laws are from Stratmann and Russ ().

Study design

Using fixed- and random-effects regressions, I test how the scope of state Certificate of Need laws affects all-cause mortality within US counties.

Principal findings

Certificate of Need laws have no statistically significant effect on all-cause mortality. Point estimates indicate that if they have any effect, they are more likely to

SUBMITTER: Bailey J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5785317 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature