insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health care reform can be regarded as a natural experiment. We used a difference …

insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health care reform can be regarded as a natural experiment. We used a difference …

insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health-care reform can be regarded as a natural experiment. We used a difference …

insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health care reform can be regarded as a natural experiment. We used a difference …

with selection of healthy patients into HMOs. Even after adjusting for this selection, however, HMO physicians remain …-sensitive patients into HMOs, or it could simply reflect lower prices. To understand the difference, I estimate a model of physician … prescribing and patient refill decisions. Patients in HMOs are 50% more sensitive to copays than are other patients, consistent …

as an influence on more severely versus mildly afflicted patients to visit their physicians. Briefly, using data from the … discuss the focal health condition and the efficacy of the advertised drug with their physicians. In this paper, we … investigate the effectiveness of such direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) on different types of patients. Specifically, we …