, Medicare's regulatory externalities are less well-understood. We study such implications by examining how physicians …

We examine the variation across emergency department (ED) physicians in their resource use and health outcomes, and the … in Montreal, Canada. Physicians in Montreal rotate across shifts between simple and difficult cases, implying a quasi …-random assignment of patients to physicians conditional on the choice of ED. We consider three medical conditions that present …

Background: Patient demand for emergency medical services continues to rise from all-time highs. ED physicians … generally respond to this rising demand by increasing their level of multitasking. Aim: What leads ED physicians to select which … other servers. In contrast, we consider how familiarity between peers affects a physician’s chosen multitasking level …

or not salient to physicians. We test how physicians respond to malpractice allegations made directly against them. Our … sample is Emergency Department physicians in Florida, where we have the universe of data on patients and how they are treated … along with a census of malpractice complaints. We find that physicians oversee 9% fewer discharges after malpractice …

, Medicare's regulatory externalities beyond fee-setting are less well understood. We study how physicians' outpatient surgery …. Specifically, physicians became 70% more likely to use ASCs for the policy-targeted procedure among their non-Medicare patients …