This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her … practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical … expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice. Employing a difference-in-difference framework, we find that patients who …

patients’ own homes. Consultations with doctors refer to the number of contacts with physicians, both generalists and …This indicator presents data on the number of consultations patients have with doctors in a given year. Consultations … with doctors can take place in doctors’ offices or clinics, in hospital outpatient departments or, in some cases, in …