Affiliation:
1. Stanford University, Department of Veterans Affairs, and NBER (email: )
2. UC Berkeley and NBER (email: )
3. Carnegie Mellon University and NBER (email: )
Abstract
We study public versus private provision of health care for veterans aged 65 and older who may receive care provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and in private hospitals financed by Medicare. Utilizing the ambulance design of Doyle et al. (2015), we find that the VA reduces 28-day mortality by 46 percent (4.5 per centage points) and that these survival gains are persistent. The VA also reduces 28-day spending by 21 percent and delivers strikingly different reported services relative to private hospitals. We find suggestive evidence of complementarities between continuity of care, health IT, and integrated care. (JEL H51, I11, I12, I18, J14)
Publisher
American Economic Association
Subject
Economics and Econometrics
Cited by
1 articles.
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