potential over billing based on the hours worked implied by the service codes physicians submit to Medicare. Using the Medicare … and Medicaid Services (CMS), we first construct estimates for physicians' hours spent on Medicare Part B FFS beneficiaries …. Despite our deliberately conservative estimation procedure, we find that about 2,300 physicians, or 3% of those with a …

discuss the focal health condition and the efficacy of the advertised drug with their physicians. In this paper, we … as an influence on more severely versus mildly afflicted patients to visit their physicians. Briefly, using data from the …

the practice of giving physicians personal financial incentives to limit the provision of care to their patients. These … critics have argued that, if physicians are paid more to do less, patients will suffer harm from undertreated illness, and … incentives for physicians to limit care should not be used and should even be prohibited. In this article, I argue that the …

reforms affect where physicians choose to practice and whether physicians who relocate in response to reforms are particularly … physician to population ratio and the malpractice rate fall. This suggests that physicians who relocate in response to …

provincial health ministries. Surgical specialists make up about 20 percent of all full-time equivalent physicians, and fee …-for-service payments to them accounted for close to $4 billion nationwide in 2011/12. Because physicians’ decisions are the major drivers … hospital-based physicians be paid directly from hospital budgets as opposed to the current practice of paying them separately …

healthcare provision, in which Community Health Workers (CHWs) supplement service provision by fully qualified physicians. CHWs … countries must be reimbursed by more than the training cost of emigrating physicians in order to restore aggregate population … physicians …

physicians who experience a shortage of patients have higher income, longer and more frequent consultations and more laboratory …

manufacturers and physicians are uncertain about drug qualities. Our model assumes (i) a representative opinion leader is … (ii) manufacturers use detailing as a means to build/maintain the measure of physicians who are informed of the current … detailing to the current information sets and the measures of well-informed physicians. To illustrate the empirical implications …