Modernizing The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: What Problem Are We Trying to Solve?

A new Health Affairs Forefront article by UW Department of Surgery’s Dr. Christopher Childers, assistant professor in the Division of General Surgery, examines a central question shaping Medicare policy: what problem the physician fee schedule is actually designed to solve. As policymakers pursue updates intended to improve efficiency and control costs, Dr. Childers and his colleagues… The post Modernizing The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: What Problem Are We Trying to Solve? appeared first o