The use of pathology services
Subtitle: a comparison of fee-for-service and a prepaid group practice
By: Willard G. Manning, Jr.
Contributors: Rand Corporation.; United States. Health Care Financing Administration.
Publisher: Rand Corp.
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 43
Subjects: Medical care -- Utilization -- United States; Health maintanance organizations -- United States; Insurance, Health -- United States; Laboratories -- Utilization; Hospitals -- Utilization; Fees, Medical -- United States; Insurance, Health -- United States; Health maintenance organizations -- United States
Description: We analyzed the location of 17 categories of physicians in the years 1970 to 1979. As the supply of physicians grew during these years, smaller communities increasingly acquired various types of medical and surgical specialty services. Similar trends are observed in four different regions. The fraction of physicians who are board-certified tends to rise with community size. Only a small handful of towns with a population of 2500 or more are farther than ten miles from a physician. The profile of location patterns strongly suggests that competitive forces play a major role in determining where physicians choose to practice. Thus, as the supply of physicians increases in the 1980s, we can anticipate that services will become more and more available to populations outside metropolitan areas.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 41-43.
"Prepared for the Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services."
"January 1983."
"R-2919-HCFA."