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

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 528-535

  Johar, Meliyanni ^a   Mu, Chunzhou ^b   Van Gool, Kees ^b   Wong, Chun Yee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; fee gap; physician fee; price discrimination

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HIGHEST INCOME GROUP; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEUROLOGIST; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFIT; ADULT; ECONOMICS; INCOME; INSURANCE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT REFERRAL; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPECIALIZATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; FEES, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SPECIALIZATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84959419087     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.3317     Document Type: Article

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