Acknowledgements: Portions of this paper were developed in Eric Barrette’s dissertation and funded by AHRQ R36 dissertation grant #HS18272-01. We are grateful for insightful and constructive comments from Roger Feldman, Stephen Parente, Alok Gupta, Shane Greenstein, Ira Moscovice and participants at the 22 nd Annual Health Economics Conference and 2 nd Annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics...

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