Choice of a regular physician and health care utilization: principal-agent issues for American veterans

Yujing Shen

Applied Economics, 2008, vol. 40, issue 4, 449-463

Abstract: Using US Veterans Health Administration (VA) data, we examined factors that affected patients choice of regular physicians and how the location of regular physicians influenced patients health care use. Appropriate estimation methods were applied to control for the endogeneity of patients choice of regular physicians. Our study showed that VA enrollees with regular VA physicians were more likely to use VA for inpatient care while those with regular nonVA physicians were more likely to use VA for special care such as pharmacy or mental health/substance abuse treatment, both of which can have very limited coverage in nonVA settings.

Date: 2008
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