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The difficulties that Medicaid beneficiaries face accessing medical care are often attributed to the program's low reimbursement rates relative to other payers. There is little evidence, however, as to the actual effects of Medicaid doctor payment rates on access and health outcomes for...
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Procedural failures of physicians or teams in interventional healthcare may positively or negatively predict subsequent …
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Background: Concern about ambulance diversion and emergency department (ED) overcrowding has increased scrutiny of ambulance use. Knowledge is limited, however, about clinical and economic factors associated with ambulance use compared to other arrival methods. Objectives: To compare clinical...
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We study whether and how physicians respond to financial incentives, making use of detailed register data on the health …
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providers is modeled in an explicit way. More specifically, we construct a model where physicians repeatedly compete for … patients and where patients' outside options are solved for in equilibrium. In our model, physicians are characterized by an … individual-specific ethical constraint which allows for unobserved heterogeneity in the physicians market. By doing so, we …
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, Medicare's regulatory externalities are less well-understood. We study such implications by examining how physicians …
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The standard economic model for the demand for health care predicts that unhealthy behaviour such as being overweight or obese should increase the demand for medical care, particularly as clinical studies link obesity to a number of serious diseases. In this paper, we investigate whether...
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Traditional Medical practice has witnessed a tremendous growth in the past few decades, and has attracted multidisciplinary academic interest. The increasing acceptance of an alternative health care system has raised the question of the appropriate method of regulation suited to the peculiar...
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drive more and more physicians out of the system, it's time for Congress to allow private contracting to play a … nonparticipating physicians, expand the scope of Medigap coverage to include services not covered by Medicare, and liberalize the rules … for opt-out physicians …
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Income cap or threshold systems rely on incentives that encourage physicians to limit medical expenditures, but little … is known about how physicians respond to these incentives. Conceptually, the threshold system is to physicians what an … in the 'taxable' billings of physicians in Ontario, Canada. We find that for services that the reform turned from …
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