: the number of physicians in the physician's group (if any); the physician's integration with or employment by a hospital … or hospital system; and the average age of the other physicians in the physician's group. We present three key findings …. First, all else held constant, group physicians prescribe far fewer opioids, and prescribe them more appropriately, than do …

effectiveness of these incentives, however, depends both on physicians' price sensitivity and their knowledge of patient prices. We … information. Applying this model to diabetes care, we find that physicians lack detailed price information and are more price …-elastic than full-information models imply. We predict that providing physicians detailed information on prices at the point of …

We ask how competition influences the prescribing practices of physicians. Law changes granting nurse practitioners … variation in competition. In response, we find that general practice physicians (GPs) significantly increase their prescribing …. Our findings are consistent with a simple model of physician behavior in which competition for patients leads physicians …

Physicians commonly receive marketing-related transfers from drug firms. We examine the impact of these relationships … fading out within a year. A marketing payment also leads physicians to begin treating cancer patients with lower expected …

the productivity difference between physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs), two health care professions performing … and quasi-experimental variation in the patient probability of being treated by physicians versus NPs in the emergency … department, we find that, compared to physicians, NPs significantly increase resource utilization but achieve worse patient …

driving the costs of pharmaceuticals, and develop a structured vector autoregressive (SVAR) model to measure the social rate …-run prices in pharmaceuticals themselves, but with lower long-run prices in the aggregate medical sector which includes … pharmaceuticals as a component part. Further, the TRIPS Agreement and Hatch-Waxman Act to enable generic competition have both been …