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Physicians Self Selection of a Payment Mechanism : Capitation versus Fee-for-Service

Allard, Marie - 2010

The main question raised in this paper is whether GPs should self select their payment mechanism or not. To answer it, we model GPs' behavior under the most common payment schemes (capitation and fee-for-service) and when GPs can select one among those. Our analysis considers GPs heterogeneity...

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Activism during Doctor’s Strike in Tanzania, Success and Setbacks

isangula, Kahabi G. - 2012

The over extended on-and-off strike in Tanzania early this year was a result of unfruitful negotiations between the government and the doctors. Civil society organizations referred to as ‘activists', involved with advocacy for health related and human rights issues intervened largely by using...

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Link between Pay for Performance Incentives and Physician Payment Mechanisms : Evidence from the Diabetes Management Incentive in Ontario

Kantarevic, Jasmin - 2012

Pay for performance (P4P) incentives for physicians are generally designed as additional payments that can be paired … find that physicians in a blended capitation model are more responsive to the DMI than physicians in an enhanced fee …

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Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Echevin, Damien - 2014

introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed …

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Medical Malpractice Reform Measures and Their Effects

Leflar, Robert B - 2014

physicians to hospitals or administrative no-fault compensation systems. Empirical evidence about the practical effects of … online from the publisher and copyright holder, the American College of Chest Physicians …

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New Clinical Information and Physician Prescribing : How Do Pediatric Labeling Changes Affect Prescribing to Children?

Olson, Mary K.; Yin, Nina - 2021

Our study examines how physician prescribing responds to new scientific information added to drug labels. We focus on a series of label changes with new information about the effects of drugs in children. The information arose in response to a 1997 policy, pediatric exclusivity, which gave drug...

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Persuasion in Physician Agency

Carroni, Elias; Pignataro, Giuseppe - 2021

Overwhelming evidence suggests that there exists a physician's tendency in recommending unnecessary medical treatments to the patients. This paper discusses this issue by providing a theoretical model with one physician and many patients who are uncertain about an underlying state of disease....

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Physicians as Persuaders : Evidence from Hospitals in China

Xiang, Jia - 2021

random variation in physicians’ and patients’ financial incentives. For a diagnosis for which surgical treatment is somewhat … discretionary, fully informing patients, equivalently eliminating physicians’ financial incentives, reduces surgery rates by almost …

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Organizing and Regulating Hospital and Physician Investment

Mikkers, Misja C. - 2011

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Monopolistic competition and costs in the health care sector

Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2009

strong position on the market for health care services. Physicians exert a type of monopolistic power which can be described … counterbalance the strong bargaining position of the physicians. Thus, health care expenditure is higher, financing either extra … profits for physicians or a higher number of them. In addition, health insurers do not have an incentive to contract …

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