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Does Malpractice Liability Keep the Doctor Away? Evidence from Tort Reform Damage Caps
Matsa, David A. - 2010
inelastic, then tort reform will not affect physicians' net income or location decisions. I use county-level, specialty …-specific annual counts of physicians from 1970 to 2000 to estimate the effect of damage caps on physician supply. The results suggest … appear to increase the supply of frontier rural, specialist physicians by 10-12 percent. This is likely because rural doctors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056751
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Exit, Choice or Loyalty : Patient Driven Competition in Primary Care
Levaggi, Rosella; Rochaix, Lise - 2004
The questions addressed in this paper are related to access rules to primary care services and the potential for patient driven competition between GPs and specialists. Most of the literature on the performance of primary care has dealt with reforming payment schemes, little attention being paid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071531
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How Do Doctors Respond to Incentives? Unintended Consequences of Paying Doctors to Reduce Costs
Alexander, Diane - 2020
Billions of dollars have been spent on pilot programs searching for ways to reduce healthcare costs. I study one such program, where hospitals pay doctors bonuses for reducing the total hospital costs of admitted Medicare patients (a “bundled payment�). Doctors respond to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014120725
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The Value of Planned Death
Lien, Donald D.; Chan, Leo H. - 2015
In this paper we propose a theoretical model of evaluating the economic costs and benefits of physician assisted suicide (euthanasia). The contemplation of euthanasia is modeled akin to the valuation of a real option. Our modeling of the decision shows that euthanasia is optimal when certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193608
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Does Higher Malpractice Pressure Deter Medical Errors?
Iizuka, Toshiaki - 2011
An important objective of medical liability law is to deter medical errors by punishing negligent mistakes. However, relatively little evidence exists on the deterrence effect. Using newly constructed measures of preventable medical complications and state tort reforms in the United States...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225390
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Physician Payment Contracts in the Presence of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection : The Theory and its Application to Ontario
Kantarevic, Jasmin - 2015
behavior. These features include: (1) physicians can choose a payment contract from a menu that includes an enhanced fee … blended capitation contract; (3) physicians sort selectively into the contracts based on their preferences; and (4) physicians … in the blended capitation model provide fewer services than physicians in the enhanced fee-for-service model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016351
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Medical Malpractice Reform and Physicians in High-Risk Specialties
Klick, Jonathan; Stratmann, Thomas - 2010
If medical malpractice reform affects the supply of physicians, the effects will be concentrated in specialties facing … Malpractice Reform Help States Retain Physicians and Does it Matter?" …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060483
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Does Higher Malpractice Pressure Deter Medical Errors?
Iizuka, Toshiaki - 2012
An important objective of medical liability law is to deter medical errors by punishing negligent mistakes. However, relatively little evidence exists on the deterrence effect. Using newly constructed measures of preventable medical complications and state tort reforms in the United States...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105689
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Incentivizing physicians' diagnostic effort and test with moral hazard and adverse selection
Bardey, David; De Donder, Philippe; Leroux, Marie-Louise - 2025
We study a situation where physicians differing in their degree of altruism exert a diagnostic effort before deciding … signal of the patient’s type, while the test is perfect. At the laissez-faire, physicians exert insufficient diagnostic … optimal testing decision and the participation of physicians. When physicians differ in their (non-observable) degree of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015211646
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Chapter Eight. Cost Effectiveness and Payment Policy
Garber, Alan M.; Sculpher, Mark J. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 471-497). 2011
Cost-effectiveness analysis is versatile and used widely to assist in health care decision making. This chapter discusses how cost-effectiveness analysis is used at the system or national level, particularly in the domain of coverage and payment policy. We describe its relationship to other...
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