separates variation in average utilization of Medicare beneficiaries due to physicians, non-physician supply side factors, and … physician treatment intensity. Conservatively, physicians are three times as important as non-physician supply-side factors in … explaining geographic variation. Around three-fifths of physicians' role comes from differences across areas in physician …

In theory, there are several reasons why physician organizational form might affect the price, quantity, and quality of … physician services. In this paper, we examine the effect of three aspects of physician organizational form on opioid prescribing …: the number of physicians in the physician's group (if any); the physician's integration with or employment by a hospital …

expectations on their own ability, contemporaneous physician income, and the ex post income of physicians in their medical school …

We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may …'s incentive contract provides a typical physician an increase, at the margin, of $0.10 in income for each $1.00 reduction in …

This paper studies the consequences of physician authority on pharmaceutical prescribing. Physicians engage in a costly … diagnostic skill of the physician along with the investments made by the doctor in learning about different drugs. While the … underlying level of physician skill or knowledge cannot be observed, differences among physicians in terms of these attributes …

because they measure how malpractice pressure affects physician perceptions of appropriate practices, and thereby capture an …