There is considerable evidence that patients that are treated by high volume physicians and hospitals have better … health outcomes than patients treated by low volume physicians and hospitals. Thus, as an indirect measure of quality …

Program, physicians decreased the number of hours spent with patients, but increased their participation in the expanded …

We demonstrate Medicare's influence on private insurers' payments for physicians' services. Using a large …

raise payments made to physicians and clinics under the Medicaid program, but reduce payments to hospitals. Finally, we …

. In response to these cuts, physicians increased their provision of chemotherapy and changed the mix of chemotherapy drugs …

potential overbilling based on the hours worked implied by the service codes physicians submit to Medicare. Using the Medicare … and Medicaid Services (CMS), we first construct estimates for physicians' hours spent on Medicare Part B FFS beneficiaries …. Despite our deliberately conservative estimation procedure, we find that about 2,300 physicians, or 3% of those with a …