| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21930 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21930 |
| Healing the Poor: The Influence of Patient Socioeconomic Status on Physician Supply Responses | |
| Alice Chen; Darius N. Lakdawalla | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-02-01 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | A longstanding literature explores how altruism affects the way physicians respond to incentives and provide care. We analyze how patient socioeconomic status mediates these responses. We show theoretically that patient socioeconomic status systematically influences the way physicians respond to reimbursement changes, and we identify the channels through which these effects operate. We use two Medicare reimbursement changes to investigate these insights empirically. We confirm that a given physician facing an increase in reimbursement boosts utilization by more when treating richer patients. We show that average supply price elasticities vary from 0.02 to 0.18 for a given physician, depending on the patient’s socioeconomic status. Finally, we show that the Medicare reforms we study led to overall reimbursement increases that raised healthcare utilization by 10% more for high-income patients compared to their low-income peers. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21930 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579604 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alice Chen,Darius N. Lakdawalla. Healing the Poor: The Influence of Patient Socioeconomic Status on Physician Supply Responses. 2016. |
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| 文件名称/大小 | 资源类型 | 版本类型 | 开放类型 | 使用许可 | ||
| w21930.pdf（762KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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