potential overbilling based on the hours worked implied by the service codes physicians submit to Medicare. Using the Medicare … and Medicaid Services (CMS), we first construct estimates for physicians' hours spent on Medicare Part B FFS beneficiaries …. Despite our deliberately conservative estimation procedure, we find that about 2,300 physicians, or 3% of those with a …

potential overbilling based on the hours worked implied by the service codes physicians submit to Medicare. Using the Medicare … and Medicaid Services (CMS), we first construct estimates for physicians' hours spent on Medicare Part B FFS beneficiaries …. Despite our deliberately conservative estimation procedure, we find that about 2,300 physicians, or 3% of those with a …

theoretical framework for assessing the degree to which incentive contracts do in fact induce physicians to deviate from a …