expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in … the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric …

-for-service model. We also find that the FHO physicians have lower referral rates and enroll patients of similar complexity compared to … physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model … was introduced in 2007, we find that physicians in the FHO model provide about 6 percent fewer services and visits per day …

distinct patients seen. We also find that the FHG physicians have lower referral rates and treat slightly more complex patients …We study an enhanced fee-for-service model for primary care physicians in the Family Health Groups (FHG) in Ontario … than the comparable FFS physicians. These results suggest that the FHG model offers a promising alternative to the FFS …

utilization, outcomes, and costs for patients hospitalized for dementia in China. Regional patterns demonstrate gaps in equity and … efficiency of dementia care and management for dementia patients. Health policy and practices should consider geographic …

Roughly a quarter of physicians in the United States are either international medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign …-born physicians (FBPs). We propose a theoretical model where patient preferences that disfavor IMGs and FBPs may result in those … physicians offering better access to their services compared with non-IMGs/FBPs in equilibrium. We use data from two field …

to the patients. To identify the causal impact of the FMP, we exploit the variation in its introduction across provinces …

behavior. These features include: (1) physicians can choose a payment contract from a menu that includes an enhanced fee … blended capitation contract; (3) physicians sort selectively into the contracts based on their preferences; and (4) physicians … in the blended capitation model provide fewer services than physicians in the enhanced fee-for-service model. …