"Defensive medicine" is a potentially serious social problem: if fear of liability drives health care providers to … administer treatments that do not have worthwhile medical benefits, then the current liability system may generate inefficiencies … question, we analyze the effects of malpractice liability reforms using data on all elderly Medicare beneficiaries treated for …

discover diferential treatment styles driven by physicians' perceived liability risk among patients with a diferent critical … attitude drives physicians' perceived liability risk and consequent defensive behaviour among obstetricians/gynaecologists and …Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more …

In most developed countries drugs are dispensed to patients through physicians and pharmacists. This paper studies the … a self-dispensation regime. Pharmacies in cantons that allow physicians to dispense drugs tend to have relatively higher …

We analyze whether the possibility for physicians to dispense drugs increases health care expenditures due to the … dispensing is permitted, physicians produce significantly higher drug costs in the order of 30% per patient. …

This paper examines how physicians in China respond to a pay-for-performance scheme that mismeasures performance. In … to decrease drug expenditure. Using a unique patient-level data from a large Chinese hospital, I find that physicians … inducement hypothesis as physicians in China may receive under-the-counter commission for prescribing certain drugs. I also find …

In many healthcare markets, physicians can influence the volume (volume response) and the composition of the services … regulated at the federal level. Dispensing creates financial incentives for physicians to sell more drugs and to substitute …

This paper estimates the impact of gifts - monetary or in-kind payments - from pharmaceutical firms on physicians … Part D, we find that payments cause physicians to prescribe more brand drugs. On average, for every dollar spent, payments … heterogeneity in responses to payments across physicians. Differences are predominantly explained by the insurance coverage of …

This paper studies how gifts - monetary or in-kind payments - from drug firms to physicians in the US affect … prescriptions and payments with causal inference and machine learning methods. We find that payments cause physicians to prescribe … more brand drugs, resulting in a cost increase of $30 per dollar received. Responses differ widely across physicians, and …

There is evidence that physicians disproportionately suffer from substance use disorder and mental health problems. It … increases the use of antidepressants, opioids, anxiolytics, and sedatives, especially for female physicians. Among female …