We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may … induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would chose in the absence of incentives. We set out a … suggestive evidence that financial incentives linked to commonly used "quality" measures may stimulate an improvement in measured …

We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may … induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would chose in the absence of incentives. We set out a … suggestive evidence that financial incentives linked to commonly used quality measures may stimulate an improvement in measured …

or responsiveness to financial incentives. In the frontier literature productive efficiency is assumed to be exogenously …

Managed care organizations rely on incentives that encourage physicians to limit medical expenditures, but little is … known about how physicians respond to these incentives. We address this issue by analyzing the physician incentive contracts … to a novel explanation for high-powered group incentives: such incentives can improve efficiency in the allocation of …

We studied the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they … may induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would choose in the absence of incentives. We … find suggestive evidence that financial incentives linked to commonly used "quality" measures may stimulate an improvement …