The debate over physicians’ distribution has attracted the attention of the economic and public health literature over … the last forty years. Nonetheless, it is still to date unclear what determines physicians’ location, and whether foreign … physicians contribute to fill the geographical gaps left by national doctors in any given country. The present research sets out …

physicians serving lower-income adults who will be added to Medicaid …

Physician compensation accounts for about one-fifth of all Canadian healthcare spending. But physicians’ decisions …, particularly those made by primary care doctors, are the conduit for the majority of the system’s costs. The incentives physicians … could be extended so that primary care physicians would keep track of the costs of their referrals and prescribed treatments …

newly collected data on Medicaid payments to physicians. First, I confirm past results—when Medicaid pays doctors relatively …

clinical payment to physicians has grown at an average annual rate of 7.6% from 2004 to 2010. The key policy question is … a crude indicator that labour productivity of FFS physicians has fallen during the period. The decline in volume of …

in total patient care physicians, increases in specialties that face high liability risk (with a possible exception for … plastic surgeons), nor increases in in rural physicians.The online appendix is available from SSRN at 'http …