There is considerable controversy about the causes of regional variations in health care
expenditures. Using vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service …

Background The national volume-performance standard recently implemented by Medicare
does not account for geographic variation in expenditures for physicians' services. To study …

Data from the National Medical Care Expenditure Study shed light on competing hypotheses
about the physician's role as agent for the patient or as self-interested provider of medical …

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april 18, 2013 1465 and other health care providers. In particular, the committee was asked …

Background: The health implications of regional differences in Medicare spending are
unknown. Objective: To determine whether regions with higher Medicare spending provide …

Background: The health implications of regional differences in Medicare spending are
unknown. Objective: To determine whether regions with higher Medicare spending achieve …

Prologue: The primary role that private physicians have played in the design of government
efforts to moderate the cost of medical care has been to take exception to the public …

Recent research has investigated the determinants of the specific hospitals to which patients
are admitted. Data limitations have led researchers to examine the effects of patient and …

Per capita Medicare spending is more than twice as high in New York City and Miami than in
places like Salem, Oregon. How much of these differences can be explained by Medicare's …

There are widespread differences in health care spending and utilization across regions of
the US as well as in other countries. Are these variations caused by demand-side factors …