We ask how patient knowledge of appropriate antibiotic usage affects both physicians prescribing behavior and the … knowledge also increases physicians' information provision about possible side effects, but has a negative impact on the quality … physician-patient relationship. We conduct an audit study in which a pair of simulated patients with identical flu …

We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births … in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and … plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects (capturing hospital quality). We use an inequality estimator that allows …

Primary care physicians (PCPs) provide frontline health care to patients in the U.S.; however, it is unclear how their … health care utilization by focusing on Medicare patients affected by PCP relocations or retirements, which we refer to as … "exits." Observing where patients receive care after these exits, we estimate event studies to compare patients who switch to …

substantially across physicians and was highly stable for individual physicians. Patients of physicians in the 75th versus 25th …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 …

information and medical knowledge among patients, an enormous number of health policies are focused on patient education. In this … health care service efficacy—i.e., physicians as patients—with a comparable group of non-physician patients, taking various … campaigns. To do so, we compare the care received by a group of patients that should have the best possible information on …

styles of primary care physicians significantly affect the health outcomes of their patients. Using data on the population of … statin users in Denmark and matching patients to their primary care physicians, we show that the physician’s ability to …A host of different factors affect health and longevity, ranging from genetic endowments to public policy. Physicians …

plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians available to treat patients when they are admitted to the hospital via … rankings, sex, years of experience, and patient volume. The main finding is that when heart failure patients enter the hospital … attempts to estimate the types of physicians that improve survival. This paper aims to overcome selection bias by exploiting …

. For patients with diagnoses of Pneumonia or Acute Myocardial Infarction, an additional day in the hospital could decrease … reducing mortality rates far exceed the cost of keeping these patients in the hospital for an additional day … as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality …

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 … patients covered by these two types of plans. We find that managed care patients tend to be treated by lower volume providers …