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In Physician Fee Schedules
By Nancy Chockley PhD
President & CEO
NIHCM Foundation
Leaving Medicare F-F-S Reimbursement
While there is near universal agreement that we need to move away from Medicare’s fee-for-service [F-F-S] physician payment system, Dr. Robert Berenson argues that in the short term we still need to focus on improving the current physician fee schedule.
Reasons Why?
Not only are the value-based payment systems that most reformers envision still many years from widespread reality, the existing fee schedule prices will serve as the building blocks for some of the newer aggregate payment approaches.
Assessment
In his Expert Voices essay, Dr. Berenson offers thoughts on how to improve the system in ways that both address current payment system woes and serve as a step toward future value-based payment systems.
Link: http://nihcm.org/pdf/NIHCM-EV-Berenson_FINAL.pdf
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email: nihcm@nihcm.org
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