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Medicare, Access, and Physicians' Willingness to Accept New Medicare Patients

Kurt D. GillisDavid W. Lee

出版	SSRN, 2008
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DIfjzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This paper examines the importance of Medicare reimbursement and other factors in determining physicians' willingness to accept new Medicare patients. A simple two-period, two-payer model is developed where profit maximizing physicians draw new patients from queues of each payer type, and are constrained to treat established patients that return for care. Under these assumptions, both current and future reimbursement are related to the decision to accept new Medicare patients, the impact of the latter depending on the turnover in patient load. The empirical results suggest that physicians' responses to current and expected future reimbursement differ by specialty.