Do Physicians' Financial Incentives Affect Medical Treatment and Patient Health?

Paying physicians more to do less: financial incentives to limit care.

As the explosion in health care costs has led to serious efforts at cost containment, concerns have been raised that some of the methods used to contain costs may cause more harm than good. In particular, many commentators have criticized the practice of giving physicians personal financial incentives to limit the provision of care to their patients. These critics have argued that, if physician...

بیهودگی اقدامات پزشکی از منظر چهار اصل اخلاق زیستی

Medical futility refers to diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitation interventions that are unlikely to produce any positive outcome for patients. Doctors should beware of such actions due to their professional commitments. There are ambiguities in the definition of futility that have been the subject of many studies. In this paper, relevant literature was reviewed to find a definition for futi...

Physicians Treating Physicians: Information and Incentives in Childbirth∗

This paper provides new evidence on the interaction between patient information and physician financial incentives. Using rich microdata on childbirth, we compare the treatment of physicians when they are patients with that of comparable non-physicians. We also determine how the treatment gap varies with providers’ financial incentives by exploiting the presence of HMO-owned hospitals. Consiste...

Do Financial Incentives Increase Doctors’ Willingness to Publish Research? – A Pilot Study of 21 Junior Doctors

Eligibility for financial incentives and electronic medical record use among physicians.

Chang Liu, MA, Rosa Baier, MPH, Rebekah Gardner, MD, and Amal Trivedi, MD, MPH  although elecTronic medical recordS (EMRs) may improve quality of care and reduce healthcare spending, uptake remains low in the United States. 8 A 2009 national survey of hospitals found that only 2.9% of hospitals had a comprehensive, electronic system and an additional 7.9%, a basic system. The same year, a phys...