In this paper, we estimate how hospital ownership of physicians' practices affects their patients' hospital choices. We … match data on the hospital admissions of Medicare beneficiaries, including the identity of their admitting physician, with … data on the identity of the owner of the admitting physician's practice. We find that a hospital's ownership of an …

In this paper, we estimate how hospital ownership of physicians' practices affects their patients' hospital choices. We … match data on the hospital admissions of Medicare beneficiaries, including the identity of their admitting physician, with … data on the identity of the owner of the admitting physician's practice. We find that a hospital's ownership of an …

introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed …We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …