The Impact of Maternity Minimum Stay Mandates on Hospitalizations: An Extension

Attila Cseh () and Brandon Koford

International Advances in Economic Research, 2010, vol. 16, issue 4, 395-409

Abstract: Due to concerns about the health impacts of deliveries with short postpartum hospital stays, many states—and later the federal government—passed mandates regulating the minimum length of hospitalizations insurance policies had to cover. We use the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project-National Inpatient Sample to analyze whether these mandates have differential impacts on various groups of patients. We find that mandates do have a differential impact based on race and hospital size. These differential effects, however, are not equally present in all analyzed discharge groups. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 2010

Keywords: Maternity stay mandates; Length of stay; Hospital charges; I18; K32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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