in reducing pharmaceuticals prices. Results are not as strong for demand side measures. Profit controls and the use of …

We study the effects of "balance billing", i.e., allowing physicians to charge a fee from patients in addition to the …

physicians to recoup their income by substituting a more expensive treatment for a less expensive treatment. This study takes …

This experiment investigates decisions made by prospective economists and physicians in an allocation problem which can … number of recipients". Economists tend to maximize their own payoff, whereas the physicians’ choices are more in line with …

-surgical treatment and the availability of primary care and specialty physicians. We used Symmetry’s Episode Treatment Groups (ETG … and higher cost per episode for all three conditions, while greater availability of primary care physicians is … for surgical vs. non-surgical treatments and the availability of both primary care physicians and relevant specialists are …

IOASs allow physicians to supervise the quality and coordination of care. Critics have argued that IOASs create financial … incentives for physicians to increase ancillary service volume. In this paper we develop a conceptual framework to evaluate the …

: The study was performed as an anonymous survey including German physicians. Physicians treating large numbers of AIDS …/HIV patients were preferably contacted. The physicians were asked to assess their view of patient preferences of therapy … from a previous study in which AIDS/HIV patients were asked to assess their treatment preferences. Results: 131 physicians …

use for Medicare patients among practice providers, relative to physicians in practices without MRI capacity over the same …