Does Physician Dispensing Increase Drug Expenditures ?
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Does Physician Dispensing Increase Drug Expenditures? Empirical Evidence from Switzerland.
This paper analyzes whether the opportunity for physicians to dispense drugs increases healthcare expenditures. We study the case of Switzerland, where dispensing physicians face financial incentives to overprescribe and sell more expensive pharmaceuticals. Using comprehensive physician-level data, we exploit the regional variation in the dispensing regime to estimate causal effects. The empiri...
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تاریخ انتشار 2015