To study the decision-making model behind how physicians making prescribing decisions, we studied the effects of the introduction of Medicare Part D in 2006 on numbers and characteristics of medications prescribed by physicians. We identified a significant increase in overall number of medications prescribed due to Medicare Part D but did not find any effects on the number of antibiotics. The result suggests there exist factors distinguishing antibiotics from other medications that led to a change in incentives to prescribe antibiotics, such as costs of antibiotics resistances. . We also identified the heterogeneity responses to Medicare Part D with respect to physician’s employment status, primary care relationship and patient’s gender and diagnostic categories.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-255474 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Chiang, Tsun-Kang Trent |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Swedish Institute |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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