Using artefactual field and lab experiments to investigate how fee-for-service and capitation affect medical service provision

Jeannette Brosig-Koch, Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Nadja Kairies-Schwarz and Daniel Wiesen ()

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, vol. 131, issue PB, 17-23

Abstract: We analyze how physicians, medical students, and non-medical students respond to financial incentives from fee-for-service and capitation. We employ a series of artefactual field and conventional lab experiments framed in a physician decision-making context. Physicians, participating in the field, and medical and non-medical students, participating in lab experiments, respond to the incentives in a consistent way: Significantly more medical services are provided under fee-for-service compared to capitation. The intensity by which subjects respond to incentives, however, differs by subject pool. Our findings are robust regarding subjects’ gender, age, and personality traits.

Keywords: Artefactual field experiment; Laboratory experiment; Fee-for-service; Capitation; Physician behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.04.011

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