Physician Payment Reform In Medicare: Putting The Pieces Together

Health Affairs October 9, 2024
J. Michael McWilliams

Editor’s Note

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure patient-centered, cost-efficient care under the umbrella of accountable care. Additional articles will be published throughout 2024. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work.

Physician payment reform has once again worked its way onto the congressional agenda, presenting familiar tradeoffs and a set of issues as complex as ever. Much of the recent legislative activity has focused on discrete reforms to the Medicare physician fee schedule that attempt to improve the fee-for-service system—including proposed...

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