Empirical tests of the physician fee-screen inflation hypothesis are applied to insurance claims data for three Blue Shield plans for 1973 to 1978. A framework for physician pricing behavior is developed, which includes a two-period model of inflationary pricing based on fee-screen updating, and...

This article examines the impact of reimbursement on admissions by nursing homes. Low rates of payment for Medicaid patients suggest that nursing homes should prefer non-Medicaid patients. Such preferences are observable in daily admissions data from some of a sample of 18 Southern California...