ArticleHealth affairs scholar2025
Hospital finances following Connecticut's ban on outpatient facility fees.
Article in Health affairs scholar, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Introduction: In 2017, Connecticut prohibited hospitals from billing "facility fees" for certain services delivered off their main campuses. Methods: Using Hospital Medicare Cost Reports and the National Academy for State Health Policy Hospital Cost Data (2011-2022), we applied a difference-in-differences model within an event study framework to compare hospital financial outcomes between Connecticut hospitals and matched control hospitals nationwide. Results: Unadjusted trends suggest small declines in operating margins and outpatient-to-total charges after the ban, alongside an increase in inpatient-to-total charges. In adjusted analyses, operating margins and inpatient-to-total charges did not change significantly, while outpatient-to-total charges declined significantly by 6.91%. Conclusion: Given the small sample and limited precision, a policy effect cannot be ruled out for several outcomes. Future research evaluating the long-term sustainability and impacts on hospital financials, access, and care quality are warranted.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.