Do doctors charge high income patients more?

When doctors are unconstrained in setting fees, they charge higher fees to high income patients. For a standard GP consultation, the average fee gap is 25% of a minimum price. Competition closes this gap, but not local area income.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Johar, Meliyanni
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 117.2012, 3, p. 596-599
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Doctor fee \| Competition \| Fee gap

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	I1 - Health
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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