PHYSICIANS' FEES.

Determinants of Physicians' Fees

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No user fees, but perhaps user fees.

Higher fees paid to US physicians drive higher spending for physician services compared to other countries.

Higher health care prices in the United States are a key reason that the nation's health spending is so much higher than that of other countries. Our study compared physicians' fees paid by public and private payers for primary care office visits and hip replacements in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We also compared physicians' incomes net of pra...

Employed for Higher Pay? How Medicare Facility Fees Affect Hospital Employment of Physicians

Hospitals employ an increasing number of physicians and bill for a growing share of outpatient procedures, part of a vertical integration trend. Exploiting a change in the methodology used by Medicare to calibrate payments for medical procedures, we find this trend is at least partially driven by payer reimbursement rules. Our estimates suggest that the change in Medicare’s methodology explains...

Incentive effects of medical malpractice. The effects of malpractice litigation on physicians' fees and incomes.

For many years physicians and other medical providers in the United States have been subject to a negligence rule of liability. Under a negligence rule, patients who suffer an adverse outcome are entitled to compensation if they can show that they incurred an injury that was caused by the physician's failure to take due care, defined as departure from the customary standard of care of physician...