physicians' behavior. Medical students decide as experimental physicians on the quantity of medical services. Real patients gain …. Financial incentives are not the only motivation for physicians' quantity decisions, though. The patient benefit is of … physicians are paid by FFS. -- Physician payment system ; laboratory experiment ; incentives ; fee-for-service ; capitation …

Mixed payment systems have become a prominent alternative to paying physicians through fee-for-service and capitation …. While theory shows mixed payment systems to be superior, empirically, causal effects on physicians’ behavior are not well … payment systems on physicians’ service provision. In a controlled laboratory setting, we implement an exogenous variation of …

physicians' behavior. Medical students decide as experimental physicians on the quantity of medical services. Real patients gain …. Financial incentives are not the only motivation for physicians' quantity decisions, though. The patient benefit is of … physicians are paid by FFS …

a representative sample of German primary care physicians. Randomly assigning physicians to two performance incentive … indicates that physicians' practice characteristics significantly relate health care choices in the experiment. Physicians in …

, affects physicians' medical service provision and the quality of care. Using a series of controlled experiments with … physicians and students, we test the incentive effect of performance pay at a within-subject level. A discrete bonus is granted …

physicians to improve the quality of care. Their effectiveness is, however, ambiguous as it is often difficult to disentangle the …