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Defensive Medicine: Evidence from Military Immunity / Michael D. Frakes, Jonathan Gruber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frakes, Michael D.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24846.
- NBER working paper series no. w24846
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Defensive Medicine
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.
- Summary:
- We estimate the extent of defensive medicine by physicians, embracing the no-liability counterfactual made possible by the structure of liability rules in the Military Heath System. Active-duty patients seeking treatment from military facilities cannot sue for harms resulting from negligent care, while protections are provided to dependents treated at military facilities and to all patients--active-duty or not--that receive care from civilian facilities. Drawing on this variation and exploiting exogenous shocks to care location choices stemming from base-hospital closures, we find suggestive evidence that liability immunity reduces inpatient spending by 5% with no measurable negative effect on patient outcomes.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2018.
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