Hospital uncompensated care and patient experience: An instrumental variable approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Examine the endogenous relationship between uncompensated care and hospital patient experience scores.

Data sources/study setting

The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey, CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, and the US Census Bureau.

Study design

The exogenous change in uncompensated care caused by the 2014 Medicaid expansion was exploited to measure the effect of uncompensated care on patient experience scores using a 2SLS regression with instrumental variables approach.

Data collection/extraction methods

U.S. general, short-term hospitals whose DSH status remained constant and had nonmissing data for 2011-2015, which totaled 969 unique hospitals per year.

Principal findings

The effect of uncompens

SUBMITTER: Camilleri S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6505421 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature