Managed Care Provider Volume / Sarah Feldman, David Scharfstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldman, Sarah.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Scharfstein, David.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6523.

NBER working paper series no. w6523

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1998.

Summary:

There is considerable evidence that patients that are treated by high volume physicians and hospitals have better health outcomes than patients treated by low volume physicians and hospitals. Thus, as an indirect measure of quality differences between managed care and traditional fee-for-service insurance, we compare the average provider volume of cancer patients covered by these two types of plans. We find that managed care patients tend to be treated by lower volume providers and that the magnitude of the differences varies by the particular cancer and managed care plan.

Notes:

Print version record

April 1998.