We analyse how payment systems for GPs and hospital specialists affect patients' inequalities in healthcare treatments, referrals, and health. We present a model of contracting between a purchaser and a GP and a hospital specialist, with patients differing in severity and socioeconomic status....

We explore how competition between physicians affects medical service provision. Previous research has shown that, without competition, physicians deviate from patient-optimal treatment under payment systems like capitation and fee-for-service. While competition might reduce these distortions,...

We study how competition between physicians affects the provision of medical care. In our theoretical model physicians are faced with a heterogeneous patient population, in which patients systematically vary with regard to both, their responsiveness to the provided quality of care and their...