title: Appropriate care and the market for physician services.
abstract: Rising health care costs have led policymakers to look at ways to assure the appropriateness of care. But attempts to control spending on physician services by either reducing price or limiting utilization may be ineffective due to backward bending supply. In seeking further limits on physician spending, policymakers will have to consider this possibility.
authors: University of Iowa College of Medicine.
authors: P E
authors: PE
authors: Hilsenrath
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D005251:Fees, Medical; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000639:trends; D006291:Health Policy / Q000191:economics*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D010820:Physicians / Q000600:supply & distribution; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States; D014600:Utilization Review / Q000191:economics*