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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.
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Alternatively, we have also estimated our model with Cox proportional hazard model. We present our OLS results due to computational tractability of the interaction terms in linear models.
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The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge the financial support from The Center for Faculty Scholarship, and the 2009 Rea and Lillian Steele Summer Grant – both from Valdosta State University.
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Cseh, A., Koford, B.C. The Impact of Maternity Minimum Stay Mandates on Hospitalizations: An Extension. Int Adv Econ Res 16, 395–409 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-010-9275-y
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