Add to ORKGRecent experimental studies analyze the behavior of physicians towards patients and find that physicians care for their own profit as well as patient benefit. In this paper, we extend the experimental analysis of the physician decision problem by adding a third party representing the health insurance which finances medical service provision. Our results show that physicians take into account the payoffs of the third party, which can lead to underprovision of medical services. We conduct a laboratory experiment in neutral as well as medical framing using students and medical doctors as subjects. Subjects in the medically framed experiments behave weakly more patient orientated in contrast to neutral framing. A sample of medical doctors exhib...
With the cost of healthcare rising in the United States, policy makers and hospital management are t...
Physicians' treatment decisions determine the level of health care spending to a large extent. The a...
Pay-for-performance attempts to tie physician payment to quality of care. In a controlled laboratory...
This paper experimentally investigates the altruistic behavior of physicians and whether this behavi...
Abstract Understanding how physicians respond to incentives from payment schemes is a central concer...
Mixed payment systems have become a prominent alternative to paying physicians through fee-for-servi...
This paper investigates physician altruism toward patients' health benefit using behavioral data fro...
In order to implement effective health policy reforms, knowledge of physician preferences, and hence...
This thesis studies the incentives and behaviour of providers of expert services, like doctors, fina...
We propose a first comprehensive overview of the main theoretical notions and empirical findings on ...
How referral fees affect primary care physicians' behavior is not well understood. We conduct a beha...
Background: Physicians’ financial interests might conflict with the best service to patients. It is ...
In this paper, we investigate in a controlled laboratory experiment physician behavior in the case o...
Physicians' treatment decisions determine the level of health care spending to a large extent. The a...
Financial incentives abound in health care. They are found in the ways physicians are paid and in th...
With the cost of healthcare rising in the United States, policy makers and hospital management are t...
Physicians' treatment decisions determine the level of health care spending to a large extent. The a...
Pay-for-performance attempts to tie physician payment to quality of care. In a controlled laboratory...
This paper experimentally investigates the altruistic behavior of physicians and whether this behavi...
Abstract Understanding how physicians respond to incentives from payment schemes is a central concer...
Mixed payment systems have become a prominent alternative to paying physicians through fee-for-servi...
This paper investigates physician altruism toward patients' health benefit using behavioral data fro...
In order to implement effective health policy reforms, knowledge of physician preferences, and hence...
This thesis studies the incentives and behaviour of providers of expert services, like doctors, fina...
We propose a first comprehensive overview of the main theoretical notions and empirical findings on ...
How referral fees affect primary care physicians' behavior is not well understood. We conduct a beha...
Background: Physicians’ financial interests might conflict with the best service to patients. It is ...
In this paper, we investigate in a controlled laboratory experiment physician behavior in the case o...
Physicians' treatment decisions determine the level of health care spending to a large extent. The a...
Financial incentives abound in health care. They are found in the ways physicians are paid and in th...
With the cost of healthcare rising in the United States, policy makers and hospital management are t...
Physicians' treatment decisions determine the level of health care spending to a large extent. The a...
Pay-for-performance attempts to tie physician payment to quality of care. In a controlled laboratory...