Roughly a quarter of physicians in the United States are either international medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign …-born physicians (FBPs). We propose a theoretical model where patient preferences that disfavor IMGs and FBPs may result in those … physicians offering better access to their services compared with non-IMGs/FBPs in equilibrium. We use data from two field …

clinical quality, including physicians' credentials, their adherence to clinical guidelines, and their patients' risk … patients to higher-quality physicians … patients' physician choices. We collect physician rating and review data from Yelp, a leading online physician rating platform …

newly collected data on Medicaid payments to physicians. First, I confirm past results - when Medicaid pays doctors … have adverse health consequences, especially for low-income patients. …

physicians' behavior. Medical students decide as experimental physicians on the quantity of medical services. Real patients gain … a monetary benefit from their choices. Our main findings are that patients are overserved in FFS and underserved in CAP …. Financial incentives are not the only motivation for physicians' quantity decisions, though. The patient benefit is of …

physicians' behavior. Medical students decide as experimental physicians on the quantity of medical services. Real patients gain … a monetary benefit from their choices. Our main findings are that patients are overserved in FFS and underserved in CAP …. Financial incentives are not the only motivation for physicians' quantity decisions, though. The patient benefit is of …

services for patients with different states of health. We find that physicians provide significantly more services under fee … incentives are not the only motivation for physicians’ quantity choices, as patients’ health benefits are of considerable …Understanding how physicians respond to incentives from payment schemes is a central concern in health economics …

Using a large set of private health insurance claims, we estimate how physicians’ financial incentives affect their … treatment choices in heart attack management. Different insurance plans pay physicians different amounts for the same services … physicians more for more invasive treatments are associated with a larger fraction of such treatments. To interpret this …

Team physicians for professional sports franchises face a conflict of interest created by the competing loyalties they … owe to the team that employs them and to the athlete patient they must treat. Marketing agreements under which physicians … marketing arrangements call into question the independent judgment of team physicians and cause players to question the quality …

The share of female physicians has risen in OECD countries in recent decades, but we know little about the effects of … physician gender. We exploit quasi-random assignment of primary care providers (PCPs) to patients and estimate the causal effect … that female PCPs generate 14% less revenue than male PCPs. This gap is driven by a 6% reduction in the number of patients …