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

sector by analyzing whether the current payment mechanism of separately remunerating salaried hospital physicians for … treating supplementary insured patients in public hospitals, in combination with the public hospital physician’s possibility of … of the institutional design of the Austrian public hospital sector, legal provisions and directives have been identified …

centralization. Secondly, we analyze if a hospital's use of an RAS system infuenced patients' hospital choice. Methods To analyze RPE … treatment centralization, we use (bi-) annual hospital data from 2006 to 2018 for all German hospitals in a panel-data fxed … efect model. For investigating RAS systems' infuence on patients' hospital choice, we use patient level data of 4614 RPE …

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … neutral questions and expressions). We asked the physicians about the care they would administer in the presented cases and … discover diferential treatment styles driven by physicians' perceived liability risk among patients with a diferent critical …

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

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 …