Health Affairs July 1, 2024
Ravi B. Parikh, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Yueming Zhao, David R. Pagnotti, Pankti S. Pathak, Stuart Hagen, David A. Pizza, Amol S. Navathe

Abstract

US health care use declined during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Although utilization is known to have recovered in 2021 and 2022, it is unknown how revenue in 2020–22 varied by physician specialty and practice setting. This study linked medical claims from a large national federation of commercial health plans to physician and practice data to estimate pandemic-associated impacts on physician revenue (defined as payments to eligible physicians) by specialty and practice characteristics. Surgical specialties, emergency medicine, and medical subspecialties each experienced a greater than 9 percent adjusted gross revenue...

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