The Anatomy of Physician Payments: Contracting Subject to Complexity

Jeffrey Clemens, Joshua D. Gottlieb, Tímea Laura Molnár

NBER Working Paper No. 21642
Issued in October 2015

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We are extremely grateful to Luisa Franzini, Cecilia Ganduglia-Cazaban, Osama Mikhail, and the UTSPH/BCBSTX Payment Systems and Policies Research Program at the University of Texas School of Public Health for data access, and for their extensive assistance in navigating the BCBSTX claims data. Clemens and Gottlieb thank the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for their hospitality while working on this paper. We thank SSHRC, Jon Skinner and the Dartmouth Institute for support, and Victor Saldarriaga for excellent research assistance. Finally, we thank Leila Agha, Jeff Emerson, R.B. Harris, David Laibson, Neale Mahoney, and workshop participants at Stanford Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania–Leonard Davis Institute, UBC, UC San Diego, USC, iHEA, the Junior Health Economics Summit, and the UBC Public Finance Reading Group for helpful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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