This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on ISI (18)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Related letter  • Related article  • Similar articles in JAMA

Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD

JAMA. 1999;281:462-465.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

The article by Baker on the relationship between managed care penetration and health expenditures for fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries in this issue of THE JOURNAL¹ touches on an important facet of health policy: attempts to influence the individual physician's style of medical practice. To understand what policy levers may be used to that end, health services researchers have long been interested in the factors that drive physician behavior.

Economists have traditionally modeled self-employed physicians as the owner-managers of business firms. These managers are assumed to maximize their own happiness by balancing the desire for more income against the desire for more leisure time.^2-3 Some economists assume that on occasion physicians may sell to their patients services that fully and accurately informed patients would not have demanded at the prices charged by the physician, if these patients had the physician's skills.^4-5

A model presented by Zweifel and Breyer⁶ . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

RELATED LETTER

Public Disclosure of Health Plan Quality of Care
Jeffrey S. Sneider
JAMA. 2003;289(7):846.
EXTRACT | FULL TEXT  

RELATED ARTICLE

Association of Managed Care Market Share and Health Expenditures for Fee-for-Service Medicare Patients
Laurence C. Baker
JAMA. 1999;281(5):432-437.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

Weighing the Evidence for Expanding Physician Supply
Cooper
ANN INTERN MED 2004;141:705-714.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

The Relationship between Treatment Objectives and Practice Patterns in the Management of Urinary Tract Infections
Flach et al.
Med Decis Making 2003;23:131-139.
ABSTRACT  

Public Disclosure of Health Plan Quality of Care
Sneider
JAMA 2003;289:846-846.
FULL TEXT  

Current and Projected Workforce Requirements for Care of the Critically Ill and Patients With Pulmonary Disease: Can We Meet the Requirements of an Aging Population?
Angus et al.
JAMA 2000;284:2762-2770.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Utilization Management in a Large Managed Behavioral Health Organization
Koike et al.
Psychiatr. Serv. 2000;51:621-626.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Provision of Methadone Treatment in Primary Care Medical Practices: Review of the Scottish Experience and Implications for US Policy
Weinrich and Stuart
JAMA 2000;283:1343-1348.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Health Care Service Quality
Porter et al.
JAMA 1999;282:1330-1331.
FULL TEXT  

Blended Payment Methods in Physician Organizations Under Managed Care
Robinson
JAMA 1999;282:1258-1263.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

A Canadian Perspective on the American Hospitalist Movement
Redelmeier
Arch Intern Med 1999;159:1665-1668.
FULL TEXT