Healthcare Innovation February 7, 2019
Mark Hagland

A professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School looks at how the system of paying for E&M services has been evolving forward under accountable care, and offers a questioning critique

In the rush forward into alternative payment models, including accountable care organization (ACO)-based models, could primary care physicians be in the process of being progressively disadvantaged? A new analysis by a medical researcher suggests that such might be the case, at least when it comes to payment for evaluation and management (E&M) services.

Writing in the February 7 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, Bruce E. Landon, M.D., has done an analysis of a complex, somewhat technical set of issues, around E&M service payments, in an article...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Insurance, Medicare, Payment Models, Physician, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt)
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