from a physician’s retirement. We then show that online physician reviews reduce this gap and help patients find a new … physician reviews, but are not found for patients of nonretiring physicians. By reducing interruptions in care, reviews can …We show that review platforms reduce healthcare interruptions for patients looking for a new physician. We employ a …

exogenous variation in patient-physician assignment. Practice style heterogeneity explains 49% of the differences in overall … presents a critical health policy challenge. We investigate the role of practice styles in patients' antibiotic intake using … high prescribing is linked to better treatment quality or fewer adverse health outcomes. Policies improving physician …

The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to offer cost sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the … Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit … policy-driven differences in the actuarial value of CSR plans that are solely determined by income. This allows us to examine …

In a laboratory experiment designed to capture key aspects of the interaction between physicians and patients in a … treatment is an example of a credence good: only the physician (but not the patient) knows the appropriate treatment, and even … stylized way, we study the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician. Medical …