Long-Term Care Hospitals: A Case Study in Waste

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Neale Mahoney

NBER Working Paper No. 24946
Issued in August 2018, Revised in April 2019

---- Acknowledgments ----

We thank Jeremy Kahn, Mark Miller, Hannah Wunsch, and many seminar participants for helpful comments. We are grateful to Abby Ostriker and Anna Russo for excellent research assistance. Einav and Finkelstein gratefully acknowledge support from the NIA (R01 AG032449). Mahoney acknowledges support from the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago and the National Science Foundation (SES-1730466). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

---- Disclosure of Financial Relationships for Liran Einav ----

I would like to disclose that I am an adviser to Nuna Health, a data analytics startup company, which specializes in analytics of health insurance claims. I am not being paid by them, but have received equity (nominal value is less than $1,000 the market value is hard to assess).

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