Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to E S Ogrod.
Physicians sometimes may be overstepping their bounds, sometimes forgetting who has the right. Much of what physicians do today is actually a negotiation or balancing of power as government deals with segments of its society, says ASIM's President-Elect.
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The Physician Payment Review Commission's endorsement of the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) represents a major step in reform of the Medicare payment system. Under this plan, cognitive services finally would be reimbursed at the same level for the work involved. The authors present a closer look at the commission's recommendations and discuss how these might substantially improve payment of primary care physicians. They also describe how to get ready.
Physicians' cognitive services, historically underpaid in comparison to specific procedures, are finally beginning to earn deservedly higher fees. To a great extent, this increased reimbursement is the result of action by the American Society of Internal Medicine. The authors note how some HMOs and insurers are already implementing payments for cognitive services, and a Table outlines congressional action in this direction from late 1983 to the present. Suggestions are given for changes individual physicians can make in their practices so that they can emphasize these services. The authors also describe the objectives of the ongoing, federally funded, Harvard Relative Value Scale.
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