This chapter reviews the theory and empirical literature on physician market power,
behavior, and motives, referred to collectively as the issue of “physician agency.” The …

▪ Abstract Recent developments in basic research suggest that therapeutic breakthroughs
may occur in Alzheimer's disease treatment over the coming decades. To model the …

Context.—Trust is the cornerstone of the patient-physician relationship. Payment methods
that place physicians at financial risk have raised concerns about patients' trust in physicians …

Abstract By 1993, over 70% of all Americans with health insurance were enrolled in some
form of managed care plan. The term managed care encompasses a diverse array of …

Background Managed-care organizations' use of financial incentives to influence the
practice of primary care physicians is controversial. We studied the prevalence and effects of …

Most physicians today treat a variety of patients within their practices where a variety of
insurance arrangements co-exist. In this paper, we propose several theoretical explanations …

Writing at the beginning of the 20th century, Shaw identified one of the significant
contemporary transformations in industrial democracies. In part as the result of advances in …

The focus on managed care and the managed care backlash divert attention from more
important national health issues, such as insurance coverage and quality of care. The …

The managed care backlash is analyzed as a collective behavioral response led by attacks
from threatened professional, provider, and special interest communities. Central to the …

▪ Abstract Utilization management encompasses a diverse set of activities designed to
influence the use of health care services and thereby constrain health care resource …