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 …

in hospital treatment and heterogeneity in the physicians' adherence to hospital choices. Our results suggest that …

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. …

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

market. We depart from the standard healthcare service pricing model and allow physicians to (partially) adjust patient … quantities supports the hypothesis that physicians respond to insurer price differences: A 10% increase in private prices …

increase expenditure on the firm's products. Our method accounts for the selection of physicians into payments (which may … result if, e.g., pharmaceutical firms target payments to physicians who see a large number of patients) and our finding holds …