Concerns about healthcare affordability have grown in France as physician additional fees
have increased threefold in the last 20 years. In this paper, we develop an innovative …

We assess the extent to which specialist doctors respond to local competition when setting
prices (including extra-billings) in a fee-for-service system. We use an exhaustive panel data …

We assess the extent to which specialist physicians respond to local competition when
deciding how much services to provide under a fee-for-service payment system. We use an …

We use a panel data set of about 1.7 million hospital records in 4,000 Dutch zip code
regions for the years 2006-2009. We estimate the effect of physician fees and physician …

This dissertation studies how physicians respond to incentives in terms of: their treatment
choice, their geographical distribution in the United States, and their effect on health …

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the
Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other …

We examine whether family doctor firms in England respond to local competition by
increasing their quality. We measure quality in terms of clinical performance and patient …

Prices for consultations with General Practitioners (GP's) in Australia are unregulated, and
patients pay the difference between the price set by the GP and a fixed reimbursement from …

We study medical practice variations for nine hospital treatments in the Netherlands. Our
panel data estimations include various control factors and physician's role to explain …

The geographic extent of markets for physicians is an important but little-explored issue for
antitrust. Using patient flow data from a 2009 20% sample of Medicare beneficiaries, we …