Do bad report cards have consequences?
Subtitle: impacts of publicly reported provider quality information on the CABG market in Pennsylvania
By: Justin Wang ... [et al.].
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16225; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16225.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  Since 1992, the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) has published cardiac care report cards for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery providers.  We examine the impact of CABG report cards on a provider's aggregate volume and volume by patient severity and then employ a mixed logit model to investigate the matching between patients and providers.  We find a reduction in volume of poor performing and unrated surgeons' volume but no effect on more highly rated surgeons or hospitals of any rating.  We also find that the probability that patients, regardless of severity of illness, receive CABG surgery from low-performing surgeons is significantly lower"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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