States have been enacting tort reforms to reduce the liability of physicians conducting malpractice. However, tort … reform may create a moral hazard because physicians may take less care due to reduced liability. This paper investigates … damages may unpredictably lead to a catastrophic jury verdict against physicians, and the joint and several liability rules …

Physicians’ generic pharmaceutical adoption involves not only patients’ and insurance payers’ cost, but also their own … interests. This study examines this double agency problem for physicians by using Taiwanese data because two of its … institutional features: First, patients and physicians in a universal health care system did not self-select their insurance plans …

Background: We analysed the impact of clinical study design for oncological pharmaceuticals on the subsequent price … Health Insurance Funds. The analysis was conducted for all oncology pharmaceuticals that underwent the early benefit …. Further analyses should be performed when more oncology pharmaceuticals have passed the early benefit assessment. …