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The Rising Price of Physician's Services
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This article is published in The Review of Economics and Statistics.The article was published on 1970-05-01. It has received 223 citations till now.read more
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The demand for and supply of physician services in the US: a disequilibrium analysis
Teh-wei Hu,Bong Min Yang +1 more
TL;DR: The demand for and supply of physician services in the US: a disequilibrium analysis is presented in this article, where the authors show that the demand for physician services is positively correlated with the supply of physicians.
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The Role of Patient Time in the Pricing of Dental Services: The Fee-Provider Density Relation Explained
TL;DR: The literature on the economics of medical care has emphasized certain features of medical markets which appear to set them apart from the conventional supply/ demand framework of the theory of competitive markets, and the "supplier induced demand model" has gained attention.
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The Impact of Health Insurance Expansion on Physician Treatment Choice: Medicare Part D and Physician Prescribing
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the introduction of Medicare Part D on physician prescribing behavior by using data on physician visits from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) 2002-2004 and 2006-2009 for patients aged 60-69.
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Physician Resource Planning in Canada: The Need for a Stronger Behavioural Foundation
Sung-Hee Jeon,Jeremiah Hurley +1 more
TL;DR: An effective solution to the problem of access to physician services in Canada must extend beyond an over-exclusive focus on the number of providers to consider the behaviour of physicians in greater depth.
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Local Competition and Physicians’ Pricing Decisions: New Evidence from France
TL;DR: It is found that governments that want to limit balance billing need to apply a mandatory ceiling rather than introducing an optional system.
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Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the way in which the operation of the medical-care industry and the efficacy with which it satisfies the needs of society differ from a norm, and the most obvious distinguishing characteristics of an individual's demand for medical services is that it is not steady in origin as, for example, for food or clothing but is irregular and unpredictable.
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Price Discrimination in Medicine
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that if many doctors engaged in such price policies, a pattern of prices for medical services would be established that would be independent of the incomes of patients.
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The doctor shortage : an economic diagnosis
TL;DR: The author concludes that the authors will indeed face a shortage of doctor services and, although he calls his book an economic diagnosis, he does not shrink from prescribing several means of dealing with the problem.