Health Insurer Market Power and Primary Care Consolidation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2014
Publication Title
Economics Letters
DOI
10.1016/j.econlet.2014.08.005
Abstract
This paper analyzes how health insurance market concentration impacts the market structure of primary care physicians. In more concentrated insurance markets, physicians are found to work in larger practices and their practices are more likely to have a hospital with an ownership interest. Physicians are also less likely to report being in a competitive physician market, consistent with practice consolidation. Our results suggest that consolidation in insurance markets impacts the competitive structure of physician markets.
Recommended Citation
Brunt, Christopher, John R. Bowblis.
2014.
"Health Insurer Market Power and Primary Care Consolidation."
Economics Letters, 125 (1): 61-65.
doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.08.005
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/econ-facpubs/99
