physicians' behavior. Medical students decide as experimental physicians on the quantity of medical services. Real patients gain …. Financial incentives are not the only motivation for physicians' quantity decisions, though. The patient benefit is of … physicians are paid by FFS …

Matter of Baby K, in which the Fourth Circuit held that hospital physicians were obligated under the federal Emergency … infant when she presented to the emergency room. Despite pleas by physicians that rendering intensive care to Baby K was … and their physicians, by investigating the role each has played in the medical futility debate from the perspective of …

capital consists of the underlying human capital (productivity) of those who become physicians and the job …-specific investments (physician training) added to this underlying capital. The value of physicians' underlying human capital is estimated …

, exogenous changes in Medicaid reimbursement rates for physicians, we find that increasing payments for new patient office visits … cost-sharing, our results demonstrate that financial incentives for physicians drive access to care and have important …