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This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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incentives GPs would require to move there. GPs were asked to choose between two job options or to stay at their current job as … incentives equivalent to 64% of current average annual personal earnings ($116,000). Moving to a town with a population between 5 …,000 and 20,000 people would require incentives of at least 37% of current annual earnings, around $68,000. The size of …
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whether informing physicians of a forthcoming mystery shopper audit influences their prescribing behavior. The intervention …
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primary care providers. This incentive scheme provides financial incentives that reward the overall performance of a practice …
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The difficulties that Medicaid beneficiaries face accessing medical care are often attributed to the program's low reimbursement rates relative to other payers. There is little evidence, however, as to the actual effects of Medicaid doctor payment rates on access and health outcomes for...
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physicians (PCPs) in the U.S. A proposed solution is to expand the role of other allied health professions. This study examines …
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analyse the choice of location of primary care physicians and estimate the causal effect of financial incentives on the supply …The shortage of primary care physicians is a global healthcare problem, especially in rural areas. In this paper, we … of primary care physicians in underserved areas. Our analysis is based on a quasi-experimental setting from Hungary …
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A number of studies suggest there is an over-supply of specialists and an under-supply of GPs in many developed countries. Previous econometric studies of specialty choice from the US suggest that a number of factors play a role, including expected future earnings, educational debt, and having...
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Primary care physicians have a central, coordination role in medicine, yet little is known about their impacts on … healthcare utilization. I study the short-run and long-run effects of switching to different primary care physicians on … utilization within healthcare markets. To estimate the short-run effects of changing primary care physicians on utilization, I …
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