Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/100724 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2003-41
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
The objective of the paper is to estimate the effect of physician bonus eligibility on CRC screening while controlling for patient and primary care physician characteristics. The study is retrospective, using a managed care plan’s claims data on fifty-year-old commercially insured patients in the years 2000 and 2001. The data also include links to enrollment and provider files. Multivariate logistic regression models are used to assess the association between CRC screening receipt and physician bonus eligibility. The results indicate that the probability that a patient received a CRC screening was approximately 3 percentage points higher in the year physicians were eligible for a bonus. There were also significant differences according to the gender of both the patient and physician, income, and race.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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