How Do Financial Incentives Affect Physicians' Clinical Decisions and the Financial Performance of Health Maintenance Organizations?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 321, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 86-92

  Hillman, Alan L ^a   Pauly, Mark V ^a   Kerstein, Joseph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0024380521     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198907133210205     Document Type: Article

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