Managed Care Provider Volume

Sarah Feldman and David Scharfstein

No 6523, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: There is considerable evidence that patients that are treated by high volume physicians and hospitals have better health outcomes than patients treated by low volume physicians and hospitals. Thus, as an indirect measure of quality differences between managed care and traditional fee-for-service insurance, we compare the average provider volume of cancer patients covered by these two types of plans. We find that managed care patients tend to be treated by lower volume providers and that the magnitude of the differences varies by the particular cancer and managed care plan.

JEL-codes: I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-04
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Published as The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Institutions, Cutler, David M., pp. 229-248, (Chicago: The University ogo, 2000).

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