• Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc · Jan 1984

    How should Medicare pay physicians?

    • J Hadley.
    • Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc. 1984 Jan 1;62(2):279-99.

    AbstractMedicare's system of paying physicians is criticized as being costly, inflationary , inefficient, inequitable , and confusing. Yet when alternative methods--to change practice arrangements, units of service, fee levels, and the assignment option--are examined, no one seems ideal. A fee-for-service system combined with a prospective payment schedule may offer the best compromise.

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