Physician Practice Style and Healthcare Costs: Evidence from Emergency Departments

Gautam Gowrisankaran, Keith A. Joiner, Pierre-Thomas Léger

NBER Working Paper No. 24155
Issued in December 2017

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We thank seminar participants at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Connecticut, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Washington, McGill University, Weill-Cornell Medical School, the University of Chile, and conference participants at ASHE (Los Angeles, CA), HHES (Lochailort, Scotland), and WHIO (Santiago, Chile) for helpful comments, Michelle Houde and José Pérez at the Département de santé publique de Montréal for data assistance and extraction, Andreas Krull, M.D. and Marie-Josée Ouimet, M.D. for providing institutional details about Montreal Emergency Departments, and Sebastian Fleitas and Jianjing Lin for excellent research assistance. Gowrisankaran acknowledges funding from the Center for Management Innovations in Healthcare at the University of Arizona. 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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