, Medicare's regulatory externalities beyond fee-setting are less well understood. We study how physicians' outpatient surgery …. Specifically, physicians became 70% more likely to use ASCs for the policy-targeted procedure among their non-Medicare patients …

Why do low income patients tend to go to lower quality health care providers, even when they are free? We show that …

A host of different factors affect health and longevity, ranging from genetic endowments to public policy. Physicians … styles of primary care physicians significantly affect the health outcomes of their patients. Using data on the population of … aspect of physicians' health management styles have important implications for patient outcomes and health care costs …

Primary care physicians (PCPs) provide frontline health care to patients in the U.S.; however, it is unclear how their … health care utilization by focusing on Medicare patients affected by PCP relocations or retirements, which we refer to as … results suggest that switching to higher-quality PCPs could significantly affect patients' longer-run health outcomes …

Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected … structural differences in reimbursement rates lead to structural differences in health care access …

logit. The estimates indicate that insurers with more capitated physicians are more responsive to price. Capitated plans …

Health insurance plans in the U.S. increasingly use price mechanisms to steer demand for prescription drugs. The … effectiveness of these incentives, however, depends both on physicians' price sensitivity and their knowledge of patient prices. We … information. Applying this model to diabetes care, we find that physicians lack detailed price information and are more price …

There are two salient facts about health care in low and middle-income countries; 1) the private sector plays an … patient interactions and more effort), which are less important for health outcomes. Taken together, this research highlights … providers in their community could shift demand to providers that provide better care and thus improve health outcomes …