Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52110 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5762
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the impact of a mixed capitation model known as the Family Health Organization (FHO) on selected quality and quantity outcomes relative to an enhanced fee-for-service model known as the Family Health Group (FHG) among primary care physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model was introduced in 2007, we find that physicians in the FHO model provide about 6 percent fewer services and visits per day, but are between 8 and 15 percent more likely to achieve preventive care bonuses for senior flu shots, toddler immunizations, pap smears, and mammograms compared to physicians in the FHG model. These results are largely consistent with the hypothesis that the mixed payment model may reduce quantity and improve quality of health care relative to the fee-for-service model. We also find that the FHO physicians have lower referral rates and enroll patients of similar complexity compared to the FHG physicians.
Subjects: 
physician remuneration
primary care
Family Health Organizations
Family Health Groups
Ontario
Canada
JEL: 
I10
I12
I18
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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