incentives facing physicians …

facing physicians …

While efforts to improve the health of the uninsured have focused on demand side policies such as increasing insurance … raise payments made to physicians and clinics under the Medicaid program, but reduce payments to hospitals. Finally, we …

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 …

reallocating C-sections from low risk to high risk women could improve health outcomes among mothers and babies. Our results …

patients actively demanding antibiotics, by physicians believing that patients want antibiotics, or by physicians believing …

Using national data on opioid prescriptions written by physicians from 2006 to 2014, we uncover a striking relationship … between opioid prescribing and medical school rank. Even within the same specialty and practice location, physicians who … completed their initial training at top medical schools write significantly fewer opioid prescriptions annually than physicians …

Using national data on opioid prescriptions written by physicians from 2006 to 2014, we uncover a striking relationship … between opioid prescribing and medical school rank. Even within the same specialty and practice location, physicians who … completed their initial training at top medical schools write significantly fewer opioid prescriptions annually than physicians …

patients actively demanding antibiotics, by physicians believing that patients want antibiotics, or by physicians believing …