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These reimbursement trends varied widely by physician specialty (-57.6% for cardiac surgery to +189.1% for pain management). In comparison, non-physician practitioners’ reimbursement per Medicare patient increased more than 3-fold over the same period. The research, published today in INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing evaluated changes in payments for Part B […]

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Measuring Primary Care Spending in the US by State

Accurately measuring primary care spending is essential to improving health care delivery and outcomes. This case series identifies states’ estimates of primary care spending and recommends steps policymakers can take toward standardizing these estimates.

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Value-based payment flaws

While CMS has a target of getting 100% of Medicare beneficiaries into value-based payment (VBP) programs–such as accountable care organizations–by the end of the decade, implementing VBP in practice will be challenging. An editorial by Navathe et al. (2024) in Health Affairs provides some key considerations.

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