ArticleJournal of health economics2023
Physician responses to Medicare reimbursement rates.
Article in Journal of health economics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- A Multi-Schedule Machine Learning Pipeline for Medicare Reimbursement Change Prediction and Operational Risk Stratification.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma among Black and Latinx Populations: Exploring Racial Disparities in the United States.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Review
- Has the reported average hernia size changed in the last year as a result of the change in medicare reimbursement codes?Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2025Article
- Medicare reimbursement for interventional pain procedures: 2000 to 2023.Interventional pain medicine · 2024Article
- Declining Medicare Work Relative Value Unit Reimbursement in Orthopaedic Surgery: A Cross-Specialty Analysis from 2000 to 2025, with Projections to 2030.JB & JS open accessArticle
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Abstract
This paper investigates how office-based physicians respond to Medicare reimbursement changes. Using variation from an Affordable Care Act policy that increased reimbursements for office-based care in four states, we use a triple difference analysis, comparing physicians with higher and lower reimbursement changes in treated states to similar physicians in untreated states. We find two mechanisms through which physicians respond. First, the reimbursement change affected integration-physicians with larger increases in office-based reimbursement were less likely to vertically integrate with hospitals and more likely to continue providing office-based care than physicians with smaller reimbursement increases. Second, we find some evidence that physicians who continued practicing in an office setting increased the volume of services provided.
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