TY  - JOUR
AU  - Frank,Richard G.
TI  - Pricing  and Location of Physician Services in Mental Health
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 1514
PY  - 1986
Y2  - February 1986
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1514
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1514.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Richard Frank
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
180 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617/432-0178
Fax: 617/432-1219
E-Mail: frank@hcp.med.harvard.edu
AB  - Puzzling results of a positive association between the number of physicians per capita and the level of fees for physician services have been reported in the literature. These results may be due to misspecification of econometric models and use of data aggre-gated across medical specialties. It is hypothesized that the unusual results would not persist with a carefully specified econometric model for a single medical specialty. A general model of pricing and location of physician's services is applied to the market for psychiatrist's services. The results imply that the market for psychiatrist's services operates in a manner consistent with the predictions of the competitive model.
ER  -