Merchants of Death: The Effect of Credit Supply Shocks on Hospital Outcomes

Cyrus Aghamolla, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Xuelin Li and Richard Thakor

No 28709, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This study examines the link between credit supply and hospital health outcomes. We use bank stress tests as exogenous shocks to credit access for hospitals that have lending relationships with tested banks. We find that affected hospitals shift their operations to increase resource utilization following a negative credit shock but reduce the quality of their care to patients across a variety of measures, including a significant increase in risk-adjusted readmission and mortality rates. The results indicate that access to credit can affect the quality of healthcare hospitals deliver, pointing to important spillover effects of credit market frictions on health outcomes.

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Date: 2021-04
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