In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a …-in-difference approach to examine whether the new copayment effectively reduced the overall demand for physician visits and to explore … was no significant reduction in the number of physician visits among SHI members compared to our control group. At the …

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a …-in-difference approach to examine whether the new copayment effectively reduced the overall demand for physician visits and to explore … was no significant reduction in the number of physician visits among SHI members compared to our control group. At the …

This is the first study to specify a physician practice cost function with practice costs as the unit of analysis. Our … study is based on the data of 3,706 physician practices for the years 2006 to 2008. We propose a model using physician … practices as the unit of observation and considering the endogenous character of physician input. In doing so, we apply a …

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a …-in-difference approach to examine whether the new copayment effectively reduced the overall demand for physician visits and to explore … was no significant reduction in the number of physician visits among SHI members compared to our control group. At the …