Paying for assistants at surgery under Medicare
By: Sally Trude ; prepared for Health Care Financing Administration
Contributors: United States. Health Care Financing Administration; Rand Corporation
Publisher: Rand
Published: 1993
Place of publication: [California?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Medicare; Cost effectiveness; Physicians' assistants; Operating room technicians
Description: "Medicare provides a separate payment to physicians billing as an assistant-at-surgery equal to 16 percent of the primary surgeon's payment. This report... presents a conceptual framework for considering the impact of [this policy] and describes patterns of physicians' billing as assistants-at-surgery. Finally, it presents a plan for studying the feasibility of incorporating payments to assistants for inpatient surgery within Medicare's payment to the hospital."--p. xi.
Notes: This research was performed under HCFA Cooperative Research Agreement [99]-C-98489/9-08 by the RAND/UCLA/Harvard Center for Health Care Financing Policy Research.

"August 1993"

"DRU-471-HCFA"

Includes bibliographical references (p. 39).

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