Assessment of the influence of medicare graduate medical education payments on hospital sponsorship of residency training
By: Kathleen Dalton
Published: 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Government aid to medical education; Federal aid to medical education; Residents (Medicine); Training of; Finance
Description: "This study assesses the role of reimbursement incentives in hospital residency sponsorship decisions. Variation across hospitals in marginal per-resident GME payment is exploited to investigate the strength of financial incentives, within a model of hospital demand for residency training that incorporates service delivery needs, mission and competition."-- p. iii.
Notes: "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health."

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-242).

Supported by HCFA grant no. 30-P-90886/4.