Journal
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMICS
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 279-298Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/15140326.2022.2041158
Keywords
Physician agency; health insurance; insurance design; insurance reform
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- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [R01 HS022098]
- National Institute on Aging [T32-AG000246]
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This study examines how changes in patients' financial responsibility affect the behavior of physicians, and finds that physicians' responsiveness to new policies plays an important role in the success of demand-side health insurance reforms.
This study examines how changes to patients' financial responsibility affect physicians' behavior. This is achieved by examining a health insurance reform that changes patients' relative financial responsibilities for a medical service that can be received at one of two locations. In particular, this study examines how physicians' treatment location decisions change after the reform. This study finds that physicians who previously work across the two locations are increasingly observed working at the location that becomes cheaper for patients. Thus, physicians' responsiveness to new policies may be an important lever by which certain demand-side health insurance reforms successfully operate.
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