Physician’s Perspective: Bundling Medicare Payments Could Cut Costs, Without Reducing Quality

The Washington Post has a section today titled “Scenes from the 21st century doctor’s office.” One feature, written by Manoj Jain, an infectious-disease specialist in Memphis, advocates for a new system of “bundled” Medicare payments to doctors. He notes that currently, “patients, insurance companies and Medicare pay separately for each procedure in the predominant ‘fee-for-service’ model…

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on March 10th, 2010