Procedural failures of physicians or teams in interventional healthcare may positively or negatively predict subsequent …

Recent experimental studies analyze the behavior of physicians towards patients and nd that physicians care for their … physicians take into account the payo s of the third party, which can lead to underprovision of medical services. We conduct a …

potential over billing based on the hours worked implied by the service codes physicians submit to Medicare. Using the Medicare … and Medicaid Services (CMS), we first construct estimates for physicians' hours spent on Medicare Part B FFS beneficiaries …. Despite our deliberately conservative estimation procedure, we find that about 2,300 physicians, or 3% of those with a …

manufacturers and physicians are uncertain about drug qualities. Our model assumes (i) a representative opinion leader is … (ii) manufacturers use detailing as a means to build/maintain the measure of physicians who are informed of the current … detailing to the current information sets and the measures of well-informed physicians. To illustrate the empirical implications …