Physicians are supposed to serve patients' interests, but some are more inclined to do so than others. This paper … studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in … altruistic physicians infer that in their absence, NHS patients receive lower treatment quality than private sector patients …

This paper investigates the impact on health outcomes of the regulation prohibiting physicians from prescribing drugs …

This analysis has two purposes. The first is to establish that physicians owe their patients a fiduciary duty. Courts … attention, both within and outside the medical profession: the concern that some physicians are failing to disclose medical … help in times of sickness and injury. This Article asserts that physicians’ fiduciary duty to patients encompasses a duty …

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

Medicare Part B pays physicians through a fixed fee schedule designed loosely as a system of average-cost reimbursement … applied fee schedules are inefficient when physicians vary in their approaches to medical practice. Allowing Medicare to … in physicians' billing practices have similar, largely unstudied, implications. Proficient billers receive relatively …

: subjects take on the role of physicians and make treatment decisions for patients, receiving feedback on the quality of their …

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 …