. Despite our deliberately conservative estimation procedure, we find that about 2,300 physicians, or 3% of those with a … 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 …

Puzzling results of a positive association between the number of physicians per capita and the level of fees for …

We ask how patient knowledge of appropriate antibiotic usage affects both physicians prescribing behavior and the … knowledge also increases physicians' information provision about possible side effects, but has a negative impact on the quality …

General medical care in the United States has historically been provided by physicians who care for their patients in … both ambulatory and hospital settings. Care is now increasingly divided between physicians specializing in hospital care … (hospitalists) and ambulatory-based care primary care physicians. We develop and find strong empirical support for a theoretical …

. Those treated by physicians from the higher-ranked institution have 10-25% shorter and less expensive stays than patients … are precise. Procedure differences across the teams are consistent with the ability of physicians in the lower …-ranked institution to substitute time and diagnostic tests for the faster judgments of physicians from the top-ranked institution …

raise payments made to physicians and clinics under the Medicaid program, but reduce payments to hospitals. Finally, we …

We examine the variation across emergency department (ED) physicians in their resource use and health outcomes, and the … in Montreal, Canada. Physicians in Montreal rotate across shifts between simple and difficult cases, implying a quasi …-random assignment of patients to physicians conditional on the choice of ED. We consider three medical conditions that present …