Cover: Determinants of Increases in Medicare Expenditures for Physicians' Services

Determinants of Increases in Medicare Expenditures for Physicians' Services

Published in: Technical Review: no. 7 (Prepared By Southern California/RAND Evidence-based Practice Center, Under Contract No 290-97-0001). AHRQ Publication No. 04- 0008. (Rockville, MD: Agency For Healthcare Research and Quality, Oct. 2003), 107 p

Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 2003

by Paul G. Shekelle, Sally C. Morton, Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Miriam Laugesen, Dana P. Goldman, Hongjun Kan, Jose J. Escarce, Eileen M. McKinnon, Shannon Rhodes

The tasks the authors undertook in response to the Congressional mandate were the following: --Describe the processes used to update payment rates for Medicare physicians' services --Analyze national trends in expenditures for physicians' services. --Disaggregate the changes in Medicare expenditures for physicians' services into the components specified in the legislation, to the extent possible.

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