have a substantial influence on patients' health and health-related costs, but we know little about the extent of this … styles of primary care physicians significantly affect the health outcomes of their patients. Using data on the population of …A host of different factors affect health and longevity, ranging from genetic endowments to public policy. Physicians …

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 … results suggest that switching to higher-quality PCPs could significantly affect patients' longer-run health outcomes …

improve health outcomes if it reduces information frictions and helps patients choose higher quality providers or causes …High-speed internet has increased the amount of information available in health care markets. Online information may … providers to improve quality. We examine how health outcomes for common procedures in Medicare changed after broadband internet …

quality of care? In a randomized experiment at public clinics in Mali, health providers and patients received tailored …Can information about the value of diagnostic tests improve provider practice and help patients recognize higher …. Nonetheless, patients were significantly less satisfied with the care they received, driven by those whose prior beliefs did not …

and improve health care access for low-income patients. We use administrative data from Kaiser Permanente to study the … effects of financial assistance on health care utilization. Using a regression discontinuity design based on an income … threshold for program eligibility, we find that financial assistance significantly increases health care utilization initially …

patients, providers and the economy. We find strong evidence that the ACA's provisions have increased insurance coverage. There … is also a clearly positive effect on access to and consumption of health care, with suggestive but more limited evidence … on improved health outcomes. There is no evidence of significant reductions in provider access, changes in labor supply …

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 …Stemming from the belief that the key barrier to achieving high-quality and low-cost health care is the deficiency of …

randomized trial to identify the importance of patients in driving overuse of antimalarials in community health clinics in Mali …Overuse of medical care is often attributed to an informed expert problem, whereby doctors induce patients to purchase … unnecessary treatments. Alternatively, patients may drive overuse of medications by exerting pressure on doctors to overprescribe …

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 …

Medicare pricing is known to indirectly influence provider prices and care provision for non-Medicare patients; however … choices for non-Medicare patients responded to Medicare removing a ban on ambulatory surgery center (ASC) use for a specific … procedure. Following the rule change, surgeons began reallocating both Medicare and commercially insured patients to ASCs …