Organizing the Production of Healthcare

In this project, we study how healthcare firms organize the production of care by assigning tasks to physicians according to their skills. Our goal is to understand the determinants of physician specialization within firms and how these organizational choices affect the quality of care delivered to patients. In particular, we aim to quantify the roles of coordination costs, market competition, and reimbursement incentives in shaping the organization of medical work in the Medicare market. More broadly, this project contributes to the Russell Sage Foundation’s interest in understanding how organizational structures and market institutions shape the delivery of essential services and economic outcomes in the United States.