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Title: Money talks - Paying physicians for performance
Authors: Keser, Claudia
Peterle, Emmanuel
Schnitzler, Cornelius
Issue Date: 2014-10
Publisher: Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations (CIRANO)
Series/Report no.: Série scientifique (CIRANO);2014s-41
Scientific series (CIRANO);2014s-41
Abstract: Pay-for-performance attempts to tie physician payment to quality of care. In a controlled laboratory experiment, we investigate the effect of pay-for-performance on physician provision behavior and patient benefit. For that purpose, we compare a traditional fee-for-service payment system to a hybrid system that blends fee-for-service and pay-for-performance incentives. Physicians are found to respond to pay-for-performance incentives. Approximately 89 percent of the participants qualify for a pay-for-performance bonus payment in the experiment. It follows that a patient treated under the hybrid payment system is significantly more likely to receive optimal treatment than a similar fee-for-service patient. Pay-for-performance generally tends to alleviate over- and under-provision of medical treatment relative to fee-for-service. Irrespective of the payment system, we observe unethical treatment behavior, i.e., the provision of medical services with zero benefit to the patient.
URI: http://www.cirano.qc.ca/pdf/publication/2014s-41.pdf
https://depot.erudit.org/id/004007dd
ISSN: 1198-8177
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