consider competition in health insurance markets and physician services markets. We conclude by considering vertical restraints …

-for-service model. We also find that the FHO physicians have lower referral rates and enroll patients of similar complexity compared to … physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model … was introduced in 2007, we find that physicians in the FHO model provide about 6 percent fewer services and visits per day …

-for-service model. We also find that the FHO physicians have lower referral rates and enroll patients of similar complexity compared to … physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model … was introduced in 2007, we find that physicians in the FHO model provide about 6 percent fewer services and visits per day …

lines are often characterized as inefficient, because they are a burden to patients without generating any gains for … favoring private patients. For SHI holders, waiting times remained stable over time (27.5 days in 2014; 30.7 days in 2016; ? 3 … the patient’s insurance status. Our conclusion is that, the reform did not repair the existing inequalities. The gap has …

cream skimming, i.e., choosing patients for some characteristic(s) other than their need for care, which enhances the … likely to treat high-cost patients than not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals, showing no evidence that FP hospitals engage in cream …

distinct patients seen. We also find that the FHG physicians have lower referral rates and treat slightly more complex patients …We study an enhanced fee-for-service model for primary care physicians in the Family Health Groups (FHG) in Ontario … than the comparable FFS physicians. These results suggest that the FHG model offers a promising alternative to the FFS …

's financial survival. Physicians, however, have a fiduciary obligation to their patients, which includes the duty to resist … legal duty on physicians to resist providing treatment that is not medically indicated, patients, physicians, and society … access to large quantities of generic and sometimes misleading, misunderstood, or misapplied medical information, patients …

This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood … endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from health insurance schemes by the … control function approach. Our results indicate that the marginal returns to physicians are highly nonlinear and decreasing …

Income cap or threshold systems rely on incentives that encourage physicians to limit medical expenditures, but little … is known about how physicians respond to these incentives. Conceptually, the threshold system is to physicians what an … in the 'taxable' billings of physicians in Ontario, Canada. We find that for services that the reform turned from …