Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization

Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization: The Role of Physicians

We find that physicians vary greatly in the intensity with which they treat otherwise similar patients, and that at least a third of geographic ...

Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization: The Role of Physicians

Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization: The Role of Physicians. Ivan Badinski. Amazon. Amy Finkelstein. MIT and NBER. Matthew Gentzkow. Stanford and ...

SOURCES OF GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN HEALTH CARE

Similar geographic variation is observed in the frequency of specific treatments (Chandra et al. 2012) and in measures of total health care utilization that ...

Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization: The Role of Physicians

The authors study the role that physicians play in driving the large regional variation of US healthcare utilization. The researchers estimate a simple ...

Evidence of Geographic Variation in Access, Quality, and Workforce ...

It presents an original analysis of data from the Consumer Assessments of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey suggesting that the effects of ...

Geographical Variation in Health Spending Across the US Among ...

Importance Little is known about small-area variations in health care spending and utilization across the 3 major funders of health care in the ...

Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization: The Role of Physicians

We estimate a model that separates variation in average utilization of Medicare beneficiaries due to physicians, non-physician supply side factors, and patient ...

Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care: Evidence from ...

We study the drivers of geographic variation in US health care utilization, using an empirical strategy that exploits migration of Medicare patients.

Geographic Variation in Health Care: The Role of Private Markets

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care has documented substantial regional variation in health care utilization and spending, beyond what would be expected from ...

Geographic variations in health care utilization: effects of social ...

For many years, researchers at Dartmouth have documented wide geographic variations in the intensity of medical care. While there is consensus that this ...

Geographic Variations in Spending and Utilization Across Payer Types

A team lead by Yale, Stanford, and Dartmouth researchers has created new measures that capture small area variations in health care spending and utilization.

Understanding Factors Influencing Geographic Variation in ...

Dramatic geographic variations in healthcare expenditures were documented by developed countries, but little is known about such variations ...

Medicare Geographic Variation - by National, State & County

The Medicare Geographic Variation by National, State & County dataset provides information on the geographic differences in the use and ...

Regional variation in health care utilization and mortality

Geographic variation in health care utilization has raised concerns of possible inefficiencies in health care supply, as differences are often not reflected ...

Social Determinants of Health and Geographic Variation in ...

Social determinants of health (SDoH) are important drivers of health care utilization and spending. ... The association between SDoH and ...

Geographic Variations in Health Care - OECD

Variations in health care use within a country are complicated. In some cases they may reflect differences in health needs, in patient preferences or in the ...

Geographic Variation in Health Care - Brookings Institution

In particular, our analysis implies that utilization controls within regions in the private sector should lead to lower regional variation in the private sector ...

Quantifying Geographic Variation in Health Care Outcomes in the ...

Even after risk-adjustment, there exists large geographical variation in outcomes. The variation in healthcare outcomes exceeds the well publicized variation in ...

Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care - Oxford Academic

Within our sample of over-65 Medicare beneficiaries, we find that 40–50% of geographic variation in utilization is attributable to demand-side factors, ...

Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending Among ...

Furthermore, we find evidence of separate, causal effects of place-specific price and utilization levels. In other words, both price and ...