The doctor might see you now
Subtitle: the supply side effects of public health insurance expansions
By: Craig L. Garthwaite
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 17070; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 17070.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  In the United States, public health insurance programs cover over 90 million individuals.  Changes in the scope of these programs, such as the Medicaid expansions under the recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, may have large effects on physician behavior.  This study finds that following the implementation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, physicians decreased the number of hours spent with patients, but increased their participation in the expanded program.  Suggestive evidence is found that this decrease in hours was a result of shorter office visits.  These findings are consistent with the predictions from a mixed-economy model of physician behavior with public and private payers and also provide evidence of crowd out resulting from the creation of SCHIP"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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