Coey, Dominic - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 6 (2015) 3, pp. 703-748
Using a large set of private health insurance claims, we estimate how physicians’ financial incentives affect their … treatment choices in heart attack management. Different insurance plans pay physicians different amounts for the same services …, generating the required variation in financial incentives. We begin by presenting evidence that, unconditionally, plans that pay …