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Measuring Physician Quality: Evidence from Physician Availability
Abstract:
Measuring physician qualit y is fundamental to understanding healthcare productivity, yet attempts to estimate the types of physicians that improve survival can be confounded du e to patient sorting. This paper aims to overcome this endogeneity problem by exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians availa ble to treat the patient on the particular date of an inpatient admission. One innovation is the use of 100% Medicare claims data to characterize the mix of physicians available including specialty training, medical school qu ality rankings, patient volume, sex, and years of experience. When heart fa ilure patients enter the hospital when more cardiologists are available, pa tients receive more intensive treatments and are more likely to survive at one year. The results speak to the debate over the value of treatment inten sity and specialists in particular.
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