cream skimming, i.e., choosing patients for some characteristic(s) other than their need for care, which enhances the … likely to treat high-cost patients than not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals, showing no evidence that FP hospitals engage in cream …

context of Norway's system for allocating patients to general practitioners (GPs). We provide direct evidence of misallocation … under the current system--patients sitting on waitlists for each others' GPs, but who cannot trade--and analyze an …--with especially large benefits for female patients and recent movers--patients endowed with undesirable GPs would be harmed …

provided to racial and ethnic minority patients. We seek to inform and ground this debate by evaluating the inclusion of race …, adopting a utilitarian framework to formalize social welfare, our analysis reveals that patients of all races are better off …

improve health outcomes if it reduces information frictions and helps patients choose higher quality providers or causes …%. Broadband access primarily helped patients choose higher-quality providers; we find less evidence that broadband improved …

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 …

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

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 …

plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians available to treat patients when they are admitted to the hospital via … attempts to estimate the types of physicians that improve survival. This paper aims to overcome selection bias by exploiting … the emergency department. One innovation is the construction of proxy measures for the types of physicians available using …

. Specifically, physicians became 70% more likely to use ASCs for the policy-targeted procedure among their non-Medicare patients …Medicare pricing is known to indirectly influence provider prices and care provision for non-Medicare patients; however …, Medicare's regulatory externalities beyond fee-setting are less well understood. We study how physicians' outpatient surgery …

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 …