title: Authors' reply to Barbieri and Kovarik, Mariani, and Waxman and Kanzaria.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA jena@hcp.med.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Anupam B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Jena
authors.affiliation: Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Lena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schoemaker
authors.affiliation: National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Jay
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.affiliation: National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Department of Emergency Medicine and Leonard D Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Seth A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Seabury
mesh_terms: D017721:Hospital Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007351:Insurance, Liability / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008318:Malpractice / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*