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The Rising Price of Physician's Services

Martin Feldstein
- 01 May 1970 - 
- Vol. 52, Iss: 2, pp 121-133
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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.

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The demand for and supply of physician services in the US: a disequilibrium analysis

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

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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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.