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 …

We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …

We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital … hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …

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 …

-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 …

used containing quarterly information on healthcare costs (care by general practitioner (GP), hospital care, pharmaceutical … acupuncture (25), homeopathy (28) and anthroposophic medicine (26). Patients whose GP has additional CAM training have 0 to 30 … hospital stays and fewer prescription drugs. Since the differences are obtained while controlling for confounders including …

We measure one aspect of how access to emergency care through ambulance services changes for patients when a hospital … period immediately after the hospital closes. We find urban patients in zip codes where a hospital closes have a small change … to transport a patient from the location of the incident to the hospital. The impact on rural Medicare-eligible patients …

between patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and their counterpart patients not affiliated with healthcare … professionals. Using the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in 2014, we identified 806 patients affiliated with healthcare … professionals and 22,788 patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals. The matched outpatient proportion of patients not …