Taking the CON out of Pennsylvania: Did Hip and Knee Replacement Patients Benefit?

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Policymakers and the general public have expressed increasing concern over rising health care costs. The Certificate-of-Need (CON) programs began at the federal level in 1974 to stem the increase in costs by limiting hospital expansion and acquisition of equipment. The federal requirement for CON programs ended in 1987; however, 37 states and DC still maintain various forms of CON programs. We examine the effect of the expiration of Pennsylvania's CON law on indicators of quality and cost of health care for patients undergoing hip and knee replacement surgery. We use the standard difference-in-differences method and the Synthetic Control method. Our preferred method indicates that the expiration had no statistically significant effect on our various measures of quality and cost.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10917

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; Health: General
• Subject: certificate of need ; knee and hip replacement ; health care ; cost ; quality

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Averett, Susan L. ; Terrizzi, Sabrina ; Wang, Yang
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2017

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/170901
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET