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Do financial incentives alter physician prescription behavior? : evidence from random patient-GP allocations
Ahammer, Alexander; Zilic, Ivan - 2017 - This version: February 4, 2017
Do physicians respond to financial incentives? We address this question by analyzing the prescription behavior of … physicians who are allowed to dispense drugs themselves through onsite pharmacies. Using administrative data comprising over 16 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607891
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Financial incentives and physician prescription behavior : evidence from dispensing regulations
Burkhard, Daniel; Schmidy, Christian; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2015
regulated at the federal level. Dispensing creates financial incentives for physicians to sell more drugs and to substitute …In many healthcare markets, physicians can influence the volume (volume response) and the composition of the services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384026
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Do financial incentives alter physician prescription behavior? : evidence from random patient-GP allocations
Ahammer, Alexander; Zilic, Ivan - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631101
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Provider effects in antibiotic prescribing : evidence from physician exits
Huang, Shan; Ullrich, Hannes - 2023
In the fight against antibiotic resistance, reducing antibiotic consumption while preserving healthcare quality presents a critical health policy challenge. We investigate the role of practice styles in patients' antibiotic intake using exogenous variation in patient-physician assignment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286629
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Financial incentives and prescribing behaviour in primary care
Bodnar, Olivia; Gravelle, Hugh; Gutacker, Nils; Herr, Annika - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169424
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Financial incentives and prescribing behavior in primary care
Bodnar, Olivia; Gravelle, Hugh; Gutacker, Nils; Herr, Annika - In: Health economics 33 (2024) 4, pp. 696-713
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Prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector
Jussila, Elina; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Verho, Jouko - 2022
We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which … private sector physicians are more likely to prescribe the expensive medication. The result holds after controlling for … our cases, we further find that the same physicians prescribe different medication when working in different sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013482204
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Double moral hazard and outcome-based remuneration of physicians
Schneider, Udo - 2007
The discussion about health care systems focuses on the dynamics of expenditures and on the weak growth of the revenue base. In this discussion it is widely overseen that medical expenditures and supply of medical services crucially depend on the compensation of physician services. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746197
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Primary care availability affects antibiotic consumption : evidence using unfilled positions in Hungary
Bíró, Anikó; Elek, Petér S. - 2018
less available, and where antibiotics were previously overprescribed. The quality of prescribing behaviour measured by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011113
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Who cares when you close down? : the effects of primary care practice closures on patients
Bischof, Tamara; Kaiser, Boris - 2019
This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102538