A national study of resource-based relative value scales for physician services
Subtitle: MFS refinement : final report to the Health Care Financing Administration
By: by William C. Hsiao [and 6 others]
Contributors: United States. Health Care Financing Administration; Harvard School of Public Health
Publisher: Harvard School of Public Health
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
Subjects: Medical fees; Medicine; Specialties and specialists; Economic aspects; Medicare; Costs
Other titles: MFS refinement.; Medicare fee schedule refinement.
Notes: "July 30, 1993."

Includes bibliographical references.

Final report.

Available at cost as a print-on-demand technical report; National Technical Information Service; PB94-115094.

Supported by Health Care Financing Administration 500-92-0025.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Overview and general methods; title: Task 1. Validation of specialty-specific examples for evaluation and management services provided by limited license and non-physician practitioners; title: Task 2. Validation of reference procedures and elaboration and validation of the inputs to the relative work values for the procedures in the HCFA reference set; title: Task 3. Develop relative work values for the procedures identified in the Medicare fee schedule as being paid "by report"; title: Task 4. Investigate the work and time required to perform multiple surgery; title: Summary, results, and discussion; title: List of figures; title: List of tables; title: Appendices. Appendix A. RBRVS bibliography and recent articles ; Appendix B. Specialty reference service lists ; Appendix C. Task 2 ; Appendix D. Task 3 ; Appendix E. Task 4. ; Appendix F. Surveys ; Appendix G. Data and documentation (not included with this document).