Patient Attitudes Toward Physician Financial Incentives

Patient awareness of and attitudes toward physician board certification.

Attitudes toward physician-nurse collaboration in anesthesia.

The purpose of this study was to compare the attitudes of anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists toward collaboration with each other. Data for this descriptive, comparative study were gathered through a mailed survey to 501 nurse anesthetists and 353 anesthesiologists licensed to practice in 7 state of the United States. Attitude toward collaboration was measured using an adaptation of the J...

Operating on commission: How physician financial incentives affect surgery rates

This paper employs a nationally representative, household-based dataset in order to test how the compensation method of both specialists and primary care providers affects surgery rates. After controlling for adverse selection, I find that when specialists are paid through a fee-for-system scheme rather than on a capitation basis, surgery rates increase 78%. The impact of primary care physician...

Physician Responses to Financial Incentives: Evidence from Hospital Discharge Data

The health reforms signed into law in March 2010 include provisions to expand health insurance coverage, subsidize premiums and increase consumer choice. The costs of these provisions are partially o¤set by increased taxes and fees on various entities (including new Medicare taxes on high-income brackets and fees on medical devices and pharmaceuticals). In the long term, however, many policymak...

Selection and Improvement: Physician Responses to Financial Incentives

In this study we examine the effects of transferring physicians from a compensation system based on salary to a profit-sharing system. Consistent with theory, we find that the change has a large and significant effect on the quantity of services provided. In addition, we find a selection effect, where the least productive doctors leave the company and more productive doctors join. We want to th...