Supply-Side Healthcare Policies: Effects on Entry, Access, and Quality

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

The session aims to expand our understanding of economic and public health implications of labor market institutions for healthcare workers. To address medical shortages, policymakers have been considering or implementing various initiatives to increase the supply of healthcare practitioners and improve access to care without compromising the quality of care. The session consists of four papers evaluating such policies or relevant labor market institutions. The session will provide novel findings on nurse practitioner autonomy and opioid prescription, nurse unions and care quality, medical licensure compact and the geographic mobility of physicians, and scope of practice and the entry of prospective workers. The session will shed light on the interaction between labor market institutions and public health and provide important policy implications.

Policy Area

• Health Policy

Secondary Policy Area

• Employment and Training Programs

Chair

• Brad Hershbein, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Discussants

• John Fallon, Boston University

• Ethan James Ellis, University of Minnesota

Organizer

• Kihwan Bae, West Virginia University

Individual Presentations

• Closing the Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Gap: Expanding Nurse Practitioners' Prescriptive Authority - Presenting Author: Lance Gui, University of Arizona

• Do Nursing Unions Improve Patient Outcomes? Evidence from CMS Quality Data - Presenting Author: Victoria Elizabeth Bethel, University of Georgia

• Breaking Barriers? Occupational Licensure Compacts and Physician Mobility - Presenting Author: Sungbin Park, George Mason University

• The Effect of Scope of Practice on the Supply of Prospective Nurse Practitioners - Presenting Author: Kihwan Bae, West Virginia University