Thursday, July 24, 2008

Scrap Medicare Fee-For-Service System, Doctor Says

They way Medicare pays doctors encourages excessive testing and discourages spending time with patients, a doctor argues today on the New York Times op-ed page.
The fee-for-service system reimburses doctors not only for their time, but also for overhead — which includes the costs of expensive machines used to run tests such as CT scans. This [...]

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