The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Unethical Behavior

JAMA. 2023 Jul 11;330(2):115-116. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.6154.
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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and its flaws, including how they might be remedied by severing CMS dependence on Relative Value Update Committee estimates of time and intensity.

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Fee Schedules* / economics
  • Fee Schedules* / ethics
  • Humans
  • Medicare / economics
  • Medicare / ethics
  • Medicare Part B* / economics
  • Medicare Part B* / ethics
  • Physicians* / economics
  • Physicians* / ethics
  • Relative Value Scales*
  • United States