introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed …

patterns of Canadian physicians. We choose this particular group for several reasons including the fact that they are paid on a …-productivity physicians (based on unobservables) are more likely to migrate to provinces where the productivity premium is greater, while low …-productivity physicians are more likely to migrate to areas where the productivity premium is lower. These results are consistent with a …

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 …

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 … immunizations, pap smears, and mammograms compared to physicians in the FHG model. These results are largely consistent with the …

Pay for performance (P4P) incentives for physicians are generally designed as additional payments that can be paired … find that physicians in a blended capitation model are more responsive to the DMI than physicians in an enhanced fee …

data collected on specialist physicians working in the Province of Quebec (Canada). Our data set contains information on … of policy reform under which physicians could choose between two compensation systems: the traditional fee …-for-service, under which physicians receive a fee for each service provided, and mixed remuneration, under which physicians receive a per …

provides an estimate of how bargaining power is distributed between patients and physicians …