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Bleeding Hearts, Profiteers, or Both: Specialist Physician Fees in an Unregulated Market

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1 Published in 2017 at "Health Economics"

DOI: 10.1002/hec.3317

Abstract: This study shows that, in an unregulated fee-setting environment, specialist physicians practise price discrimination on the basis of their patients' income status. Our results are consistent with profit maximisation behaviour by specialists. These findings are… read more here.

Keywords: status; high income; bleeding hearts; low income ... See more keywords