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 …

We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births … in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and … plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects (capturing hospital quality). We use an inequality estimator that allows …

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 … a simple theoretical model of a physician’s decision to choose the MC scheme. We show that a physician who adopts this …

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 … a simple theoretical model of a physician’s decision to choose the MC scheme. We show that a physician who adopts this …

ones at stake — the rights of thousands of hospital employees are affected as well. Hospitals that follow religious …

We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births … in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and … plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects (capturing hospital quality). We use an inequality estimator that allows …

random variation in physicians’ and patients’ financial incentives. For a diagnosis for which surgical treatment is somewhat … discretionary, fully informing patients, equivalently eliminating physicians’ financial incentives, reduces surgery rates by almost …