At last, a rational way to pay for physician's services?
1988; National Institutes of Health; Volume: 260; Issue: 16 Linguagem: Inglês
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Healthcare cost, quality, practices
ResumoChange is the one constant in health care today. New technologies, emerging diseases, an aging population, economic and budgetary pressures, and just plain politics are exerting a profound effect on how we physicians care for our patients. Like life's passage, change is indifferent to whether one likes it or not. If change cannot be avoided, at least it can be influenced by reason and goodwill. The American Medical Association (AMA) has attempted to do just that for the vexing question of how Medicare should pay for physicians' services. At least four years ago, the AMA concluded that change was coming in this area. New and often frightening solutions were being proposed to deal with what was fundamentally a budgetary problem: expenditures under Part B of Medicare for physicians' services were more than the federal government believed it could afford. The Association's Board of Trustees and House of Delegates understood well
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