Paying Physicians for Their Practice Expenses under the Medicare Fee Schedule: Incentive and Equity Considerations
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Allocating Practice Expense Under the Medicare Fee Schedule
Currently, relative value units for practice expense are determined under the Medicare fee schedule (MFS) using historical physician charges. This seems inconsistent with the goal of a resource-based fee schedule. A specialty resource-based method of determining practice expense payments is presented and simulated here. The method assumes that, for each service, the payment for practice expense...
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