the productivity difference between physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs), two health care professions performing … and quasi-experimental variation in the patient probability of being treated by physicians versus NPs in the emergency … department, we find that, compared to physicians, NPs significantly increase resource utilization but achieve worse patient …

affected physicians devote more labor supply to these cases by sacrificing other outpatient and inpatient surgical volumes …. Government price setting for healthcare facilities spills over onto physicians--impacting their technology utilization and time …

potential overbilling based on the hours worked implied by the service codes physicians submit to Medicare. Using the Medicare … and Medicaid Services (CMS), we first construct estimates for physicians' hours spent on Medicare Part B FFS beneficiaries …. Despite our deliberately conservative estimation procedure, we find that about 2,300 physicians, or 3% of those with a …

theoretical framework for assessing the degree to which incentive contracts do in fact induce physicians to deviate from a …