episode of care as a function local market factors, including Medicare physician reimbursement for surgical versus non …

We propose and test a model of the strategic interaction between public and private insurers in the physician services … decreases public beneficiaries' share of physician services by 4%, equivalent to a per capita decrease of 1%-14% in services per …

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a …-in-difference approach to examine whether the new copayment effectively reduced the overall demand for physician visits and to explore … was no significant reduction in the number of physician visits among SHI members compared to our control group. At the …