Nobel Laureate Al Roth's blog: Counterproductive incentives in transplantation

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http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2014/02/counterproductive-incentives-in.html

Counterproductive incentives in transplantation
Which would be better, to have a transplant center transplant 200 patients and have 150 do well, or to have the center transplant 100 patients and have all of them do well? How about if the 100 patients who didn't receive a transplant in the second scenario would all have died?

In Oregon, The Bend Bulletin has a three part series (pointed out to me by Ben Hippen) on the difficulties of regulating transplant centers, and the sometimes counterproductive incentives that are introduced (in an effort to counteract other bad incentives that hospitals may have).

UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, comes out looking very good, incidentally.

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