The Struggle over Physician-Payment Reform

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The relationship between physicians and Medicare, which was turbulent throughout the 1980s, has entered a volatile new phase with one strikingly unusual dimension. Congress is solidly in the profession's corner in a protest over the manner in which the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) proposes to implement a new law changing the way Medicare pays physicians and other providers of care to 33 million elderly and disabled people. The changes, which the department's Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) is now implementing, will create a new schedule of physicians' fees, impose more stringent constraints on the growth of reimbursement . . .

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