The formation of physician patient sharing networks in medicare: Exploring the effect of hospital affiliation.

ABSTRACT: This study explores the forces that drive the formation of physician patient sharing networks. In particular, I examine the degree to which hospital affiliation drives physicians' sharing of Medicare patients. Using a revealed preference framework where observed network links are taken to be pairwise stable, I estimate the physicians' pair-specific values using a tetrad maximum score estimator that is robust to the presence of unobserved physician specific characteristics. I also control for a number of potentially confounding patient sharing channels, such as (a) common physician group or hospital system affiliation, (b) physician homophily, (c) knowledge complementarity, (d) patient side considerations related to both geographic proximity and insurance network participation, and (e) spil

SUBMITTER: Linde S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6899902 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature