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 …

relationship between ED resource use and future healthcare costs and outcomes. Our data record the initial treating hospital, ED …We examine the variation across emergency department (ED) physicians in their resource use and health outcomes, and the … in Montreal, Canada. Physicians in Montreal rotate across shifts between simple and difficult cases, implying a quasi …

Physicians prescribing drugs for patients with schizophrenia and related conditions are remarkably concentrated in …'s "favorite" varied widely across physicians, i.e. physician prescribing concentration patterns are diverse. Building on Frank and …,652 physicians from IMS Health, we evaluate these predictions empirically. While physician prescribing behavior is generally quite …

A longstanding literature explores how altruism affects the way physicians respond to incentives and provide care. We … systematically influences the way physicians respond to reimbursement changes, and we identify the channels through which these …. Finally, we show that the Medicare reforms we study led to overall reimbursement increases that raised healthcare utilization …

capital consists of the underlying human capital (productivity) of those who become physicians and the job …-specific investments (physician training) added to this underlying capital. The value of physicians' underlying human capital is estimated …

Consumerism arises when patients acquire and use medical information from sources apart from their physicians, such as … cases harms both consumerist and ordinary patients. Data from a large national survey of physicians shows that high levels …

, exogenous changes in Medicaid reimbursement rates for physicians, we find that increasing payments for new patient office visits … cost-sharing, our results demonstrate that financial incentives for physicians drive access to care and have important …

health care service efficacy—i.e., physicians as patients—with a comparable group of non-physician patients, taking various … steps to account for unobservable differences between the two groups. Our results suggest that physicians do only slightly … better in adhering to both low- and high-value care guidelines than non-physicians – but not by much and not always …

Despite increasing calls for value-based payments, existing methodologies for determining physicians' "value added" to …, including length of hospital stay, total charges, health status at discharge, and readmission. The estimated value added varied … substantially across physicians and was highly stable for individual physicians. Patients of physicians in the 75th versus 25th …