We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may … induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would chose in the absence of incentives. We set out a … theoretical framework for assessing the degree to which incentive contracts do in fact induce physicians to deviate from a …

We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may … induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would chose in the absence of incentives. We set out a … theoretical framework for assessing the degree to which incentive contracts do in fact induce physicians to deviate from a …

We studied the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they … may induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would choose in the absence of incentives. We … set out a theoretical framework for assessing the degree to which incentive contracts do, in fact, induce physicians to …

a small positive effect on trust of physicians. Disclosing the positive and negative features of incentives and … increasing knowledge of these incentives does not, in the short term, reduce trust in physicians or insurers and may have a mild …Opinions are deeply divided over whether rewarding physicians for lowering costs decreases trust in physicians or …

size and depth of their provider network. The resulting competition to attract physicians exerts a moderating effect on the …