Quality Improvement Spillovers: Evidence from the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

The authors are grateful to the department editor, the anonymous associate editor, and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback, which has significantly improved both the content and the exposition of this paper. The authors thank Jongwoon Choi for his valuable input on this manuscript. The authors also acknowledge all of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Data Partners (listed at www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/hcupdatapartners.jsp) who made the National Readmission Database available for this research.