What factors influence primary care physicians' charges for their services? An exploratory study using standardized patients

CA Woodward, B Hutchison, GR Norman, JA Brown… - Cmaj, 1998 - Can Med Assoc
OBJECTIVE: To determine the extent of variation in physicians' charges for health care
encounters with unannounced standardized patients and factors associated with the …

Differences between family physicians' and general internists' medical charges

KD Bertakis, LJ Helms, R Azari, EJ Callahan… - Medical …, 1999 - journals.lww.com
Objectives. Data from 509 primary care patients were analyzed to determine whether
practice style differences between family physicians and general internists generate …

Looking for quality in primary care physicians

J Daley, PM Gertman, TL Delbanco - Health Affairs, 1988 - healthaffairs.org
As the cost of medical care has grown, so too has interest in identifying primary care
physicians who provide high-quality care. Patients, educated as consumers of health care in …

In setting doctors' Medicare fees, CMS almost always accepts the relative value update panel's advice on work values

MJ Laugesen, R Wada, EM Chen - Health affairs, 2012 - healthaffairs.org
To calculate physicians' fees under Medicare—which in turn influence the physician fee
schedules of other public and private payers—one of the essential decisions the Centers for …

Views of US physicians about controlling health care costs

JC Tilburt, MK Wynia, RD Sheeler, B Thorsteinsdottir… - Jama, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Physicians' views about health care costs are germane to pending policy
reforms. Objective To assess physicians' attitudes toward and perceived role in addressing …

Physician Prices And The Cost And Quality Of Care For Commercially Insured Patients: An analysis of the relationship between prices paid to 30,549 general internal …

MA Unruh, Y Zhang, HY Jung, M Zhang, J Li… - Health …, 2020 - healthaffairs.org
We analyzed the relationship between prices paid to 30,549 general internal medicine
physicians and the cost and quality of care for 769,281 commercially insured adults. The …

Fees: Are they getting out of hand?

M Kirchner - Medical Economics, 1978 - europepmc.org
In the past, Medical Economics has conducted an annual survey of fees charged by office
based physicians in general practice, family and internal medicine, obstetrics-gynecology …

[BOOK][B] Survey of Health Plans Concerning Physician Fees and Payment Methodology

Z Dyckman, P Hess - 2003 - medpac.gov
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
sponsored this survey of private health plans to obtain information regarding characteristics …

Paying hospital-based doctors: fee for whose service?

A Blomqvist, C Busby - CD Howe Institute Commentary, 2013 - papers.ssrn.com
Paying Hospital-Based Doctors: Fee for Whose Service? Page 1 Electronic copy available at:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2345417 INSTITUT CD HOWE INSTITUTE COMMENTARY NO. 392 …

US physician practices versus Canadians: spending nearly four times as much money interacting with payers

D Morra, S Nicholson, W Levinson, DN Gans… - Health …, 2011 - healthaffairs.org
Physician practices, especially the small practices with just one or two physicians that are
common in the United States, incur substantial costs in time and labor interacting with …