This paper employs a nationally representative, household‐based dataset in order to test
how the compensation method of both the specialists and the primary care providers affects …

Physician compensation accounts for about one-fifth of all Canadian healthcare spending.
But physicians' decisions, particularly those made by primary care doctors, are the conduit …

Understanding how family physicians respond to incentives from remuneration schemes is a
central theme in the literature. One understudied aspect is referrals to specialists. Although …

To determine the factors associated with primary care physician self‐selection into different
payment models, we used a panel of eight waves of administrative data for all primary care …

We take explicit account of the way in which the supply of physicians and patients in the
economy affects the design of physician remuneration schemes, highlighting the three‐way …

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Abstract Study Question: The study objective is to estimate the relationship between
changes in the relative fee physicians receive for a procedure and the utilization of the …

The empirical literature that explores whether physicians respond to financial incentives has
not definitively answered the question of whether physicians alter their treatment behavior at …

Although it is well known theoretically that physicians respond to financial incentives, the
empirical evidence is quite mixed. Using the 2004 Canadian National Physician Survey, we …

Understanding how physicians respond to incentives from payment schemes is a central
concern in health economics research. We introduce a controlled laboratory experiment to …