THE ECONOMICS OF GROUP PRACTICE,

Abstract

The paper presents a theoretical discussion of how costs of outpatient medical practice might be expected to vary with the size of the group providing services. It focuses upon an element which seems to have been disregarded, the incentives facing an individual physician to keep the costs of his practice down and his work effort high. The situation becomes serious in hospital outpatient clinics. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0713943

Entities

People

  • Joseph P. Newhouse

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Economics
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Medical Personnel
  • Motivation
  • Outpatient Clinics
  • Physicians

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Political science

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