Medical Economics August 29, 2023
Fred Horton, MHA

Primary care gets catch-up in latest AMGA compensation survey.

Over the years, one of the common and nearly constant refrains in physician compensation and reimbursement has been related to the promise of increasing reimbursement, and therefore compensation, for cognitive-based specialties, particularly primary care. In fact, if one refers to the original implementation of Medicare Resource-Based Relative Value Scale, which was a move away from charge-based reimbursement, at least one intent was that the methodology would lead to more fair payment and compensation for those practicing in primary care.

Up until this past year, one would be hard pressed to reach a consensus on whether or not this change in reimbursement methodology has materialized into anything other than a different manner...

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