The Economics of Group Practice,

Abstract

The paper presents a theoretical and empirical discussion of how costs of outpatient medical practice vary with the size of the group providing services. It focuses upon the incentives facing the individual physician to keep the costs of his practice down and his work effort high. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0732623

Entities

People

  • Joseph P. Newhouse

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Economics
  • Human Behavior
  • Motivation
  • Physicians

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Economics
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Trauma or Military Medicine