This study shows that, in an unregulated fee‐setting environment, specialist physicians
practise price discrimination on the basis of their patients' income status. Our results are …

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Costs and prices per patient admission vary greatly across patients and across hospitals.
The variance across hospitals is due in part to institutional differences—hospital size …

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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 …

Restoring financial incentives to encourage patients to shop for the lowest prices for medical
care underlies current procompetitive health financing proposals. This paper analyzes the …

This study examines how the volume of privately insured services provided in hospital
inpatient and outpatient departments changes in response to reductions in Medicare …

It has been observed that specialist physicians who work in private hospitals are usually
paid by fee-for-service while specialist physicians who work in public hospitals are usually …

This paper studies the efficiency effects of physician fees when the insurer (possibly the
government) pays a fee for each procedure, and the doctor may supplement the fee by an …

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 …