Modernizing The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Non-Paid Activities Call For Hybrid Payment For Primary Care

Editor’s NoteThis is part one of a two-part article on policy issues in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. Part two, ”Modernizing The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Creating a Separate Conversion Factor for Primary Care,” will appear tomorrow.Nearly all physicians perform tasks that are not directly billed as patient services. The National Academies of Science, Engineering, […]