Do Surgeons Strategically Select Patients to Improve Scores on Health Care Quality Report Cards?
Do report cards improve quality or simply incentivize hospitals and physicians to stratetically choose which patients to treat? To answer this question, a paper by Chen and Meinecke (2012) examine coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) report cards introduced in Pennsylvania. Report cards can improve quality but they can also induce selection behavior not only by…