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 …

people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …

Pay for performance (P4P) incentives for physicians are generally designed as additional payments that can be paired … physician response to performance incentives and the existing payment mechanisms is still not well understood. In this paper, we … find that physicians in a blended capitation model are more responsive to the DMI than physicians in an enhanced fee …

We measure the response of physicians to monetary incentives using matched administrative and time-use data on … services.Our results confirm that physicians respond to incentives in predictable ways. The own-price substitution effects of a … specialists from Québec (Canada). These physicians were paid fee-for-service contracts and supplied a number of different services …

We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within a multitasking environment. In 1999 the … on Quebec physicians to evaluate the impact of this change in incentives on their practice choices. We highlight the … differentiated impact of incentives on various dimensions of physician behaviour by considering a wide range of labour supply …

This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike …

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 …

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 …

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 …