TY  - JOUR
AU  - Feldman,Sarah
AU  - Scharfstein,David
TI  - Managed Care Provider Volume
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6523
PY  - 1998
Y2  - April 1998
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6523
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6523.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Sarah Feldman

David S. Scharfstein
Harvard Business School
Baker 239
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
Tel: 617/496-5067
Fax: 617/496-8443
E-Mail: dscharfstein@hbs.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1998-11-01
AB  - There is considerable evidence that patients that are treated by high volume physicians and hospitals have better health outcomes than patients treated by low volume physicians and hospitals. Thus, as an indirect measure of quality differences between managed care and traditional fee-for-service insurance, we compare the average provider volume of cancer patients covered by these two types of plans.  We find that managed care patients tend to be treated by lower volume providers and that the magnitude of the differences varies by the particular cancer and managed care plan.
ER  -