Use of Physicians' Services under Medicare's Resource-Based Payments

3 May 2007

journal article
research article
Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine

Vol. 356 (18) , 1853-1861
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa063258

Abstract

In 1992, Medicare implemented the resource-based relative-value scale, which established payments for physicians' services based on relative costs. We conducted a study to determine how the use of physicians' services changed during the first decade after the implementation of this scale.

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