and exit decisions of physicians in the private sector of the outpatient part of the Austrian health care system. We apply … - 2008. We are particularly interested in the question how public physicians (GPs/specialists) and their private counterparts … influence the entrance and exit of private physicians. We find a significantly negative effect of existing capacities, measured …

and exit decisions of physicians in the private sector of the outpatient part of the Austrian health care system. We apply … - 2008. We are particularly interested in the question how public physicians (GPs/specialists) and their private counterparts … influence the entrance and exit of private physicians. We find a significantly negative effect of existing capacities, measured …

Shortage Areas (HPSAs). Several programs use these designations to incentivize physicians to practice in areas of need … physicians billing in HPSAs. We use data from CMS and a matched difference-in-differences design to estimate the causal effects … number of early-career primary care physicians. The increase is driven by physicians who attended ranked medical schools. In …

drive more and more physicians out of the system, it's time for Congress to allow private contracting to play a … nonparticipating physicians, expand the scope of Medigap coverage to include services not covered by Medicare, and liberalize the rules … for opt-out physicians …

there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality, in the …