Glied, Sherry A.; Prabhu, Ashwin; Edelman, Norman H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
-specific investments (physician training) added to this underlying capital. The value of physicians' underlying human capital is estimated … training. These data are combined to compute the societal cost per primary care physician visit. The estimated societal cost … than the current Medicare compensation rate per service unit The private return to primary care physician training is …