V R Fuchs
V R Fuchs
This paper presents a multiequation, multivariate analysis of differences in the supply of surgeons and the demand for operations across geographical areas of the United States in 1963 and 1970. The results provide considerable support for ...
R Feldman,J W Begun
R Feldman
We examine the effect of advertising bans on the price of optometric examinations. Advertising is viewed as an information medium which enables consumers to search for lower prices, to the relative disadvantage of high-cost, low-volume sell...
J Green
J Green
This paper addresses the theoretical models designed to ascertain the existence of a variable level of physicians' activity in shifting the demand of their patients. Two basic approaches are followed: equilibrium models of the demand for he...
C E Phelps
C E Phelps
A theory of demand for preventive medical services is developed from a model of an expected-ultility-maximizing consumer. Preventive medical care is said to alter the probabilities of illness as well as the final health outcome in sick stat...
J P Newhouse,M S Marquis
J P Newhouse
Our results cast doubt on the validity of the norms hypothesis--that physicians treat patients in accordance with the average or modal insurance coverage in an area. The one study in the literature directly supporting this hypothesis is mis...
A D Colle,M Grossman
A D Colle
The purpose of this paper is to understand the determinants of utilization of pediatric care--care rendered to children by all physicians. Multivariate techniques are employed to examine four measures of pediatric care utilization in a nati...
Pricing health services: verification of a monopoly pricing model for dentistry [0.03%]
牙科医疗服务定价问题：垄断定价模型的实证分析
J E Kushman,R M Scheffler
J E Kushman
A model of monopoly with constant marginal costs is used to derive a price function for dental services. The implications of the model are tested using data on individual practitioners from a national survey. The implications of the model a...
Physician participation in health insurance plans: evidence on Blue Shield [0.03%]
关于医师参与健康保险计划的证据：以蓝盾为例
F A Sloan,B Steinwald
F A Sloan
Various health insurance programs, including Blue Shield, have developed arrangements whereby the physician agrees to accept the insurer's reimbursement as payment in full. Incentives facing the physician to accept an arrangement of this ty...
W D White
W D White
This paper develops a model of the economic impact of occupational licensure. The model is then used to estimate the effects of occupational licensure on wages and the division of labor in clinical laboratories and to generate a low-bound e...