Medicare Inpatient Physician Charges: An Econometric Analysis
To control Medicare physician payments, Congress in 1989 established volume performance standards (VPS) that tie future physician fee increases to the growth in expenditures per beneficiary. The VPS risk pool is nationwide, and many observers believe it is too large to affect behavior. VPS could be...
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CENTERS for MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES
1993
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193423/ |