Healthcare Innovation February 7, 2019
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...