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Heterogeneous Responses in Prescriptions to Medicare Part D: A Case Study on Physician Decision-Making and Antibiotics

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-255474
Date January 2015
CreatorsChiang, Tsun-Kang Trent
PublisherUppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Swedish Institute
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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