Allied Health Personnel in Physicians’ Offices: An Econometric Approach

Michael Intriligator and Barbara H. Kehrer
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Barbara H. Kehrer: University of Southern California - American Medical Association

Chapter 22 in The Economics of Health and Medical Care, 1974, pp 442-458 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This paper develops a simultaneous equation model of allied health personnel employed in physicians’ offices, which include nursing, technical and secretarial-clerical workers. The first three equations explain weekly hours demanded of each of the three types of allied health personnel as functions of the degree of delegation of tasks; own wage; visits; own capital; and, for nurses, the technician wage and, for technicians, the nurse wage. The fourth equation explains degree of delegation as a function of employment of all three types of allied health personnel, nurse rooms, technician rooms, malpractice insurance premiums, and percentages of low- and middle-income patients. The model was estimated separately for four specialties, general family practice, internal medicine, obstetrics-gynecology and pediatrics, using, data for solo practice physicians obtained from the Seventh Periodic Survey of Physicians, conducted by the American Medical Association in 1972. Estimated parameters of the model and implied elasticities of demand for allied health personnel are reported.

Keywords: Capital Stock; Simultaneous Equation Model; Money Wage; Census Division; Wage Variable (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1974
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-63660-0_22

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