, Medicare's regulatory externalities are less well-understood. We study such implications by examining how physicians …

Although physicians are often expected to be gatekeepers to health insurance benefits such as paid sick leave, research … most physicians prefer to be good gatekeepers, all of them may trust their patients in Nash equilibrium. These ideas are … illustrated using results from focus group interviews with Norwegian primary care physicians …

drive more and more physicians out of the system, it's time for Congress to allow private contracting to play a … nonparticipating physicians, expand the scope of Medigap coverage to include services not covered by Medicare, and liberalize the rules … for opt-out physicians …

Shortage Areas (HPSAs). Several programs use these designations to incentivize physicians to practice in areas of need … physicians billing in HPSAs. We use data from CMS and a matched difference-in-differences design to estimate the causal effects … number of early-career primary care physicians. The increase is driven by physicians who attended ranked medical schools. In …

about the secondary care market. We show that hospital competition is amplified by higher GP attendance but dampened by …

The shortage of primary care physicians is a global healthcare problem, especially in rural areas. In this paper, we … analyse the choice of location of primary care physicians and estimate the causal effect of financial incentives on the supply … of primary care physicians in underserved areas. Our analysis is based on a quasi-experimental setting from Hungary …

the productivity difference between physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs), two health care professions performing … and quasi-experimental variation in the patient probability of being treated by physicians versus NPs in the emergency … department, we find that, compared to physicians, NPs significantly increase resource utilization but achieve worse patient …