Using US Veterans Health Administration (VA) data, we examined factors that affected patients choice of regular physicians and how the location of regular physicians influenced patients health care use. Appropriate estimation methods were applied to control for the endogeneity of patients choice...

We provide an explanation for the widespread finding that capitated managed care plans attract comparatively healthy, low cost enrollees relative to traditional unmanaged plans. Using disaggregated commercial insurance claims from the Thomson-Reuters MarketScan database, we show that managed...