Proposed physician payment schedule for 2013: Guarded prognosis for interventional pain management

Pain Physician

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Manchikanti, Laxmaiah ^a,b   Singh, Vijay ^c   Caraway, David L ^d   Benyamin, Ramsin M ^e,f   Falco, Frank J E ^g,h   Hirsch, Joshua A ⁱ  

^a PAIN MANAGEMENT CENTER OF PADUCAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c Spine Pain Diagnostics Associates   (United States)

^d St Mary's Pain Relief Center   (United States)

^e MILLENNIUM PAIN CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g Mid Atlantic Spine and Pain Physicians   (United States)

^h TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Health policy; Interventional pain management; Medicare; Physician fee schedule; Physician payment policy; Regulatory reform; Sustained growth rate formula

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; COST CONTROL; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING INCENTIVE PROGRAM; FACE TO FACE REQUIREMENT FOR DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; GEOGRAPHIC PRACTICE COST INDEX; HEALTH CARE COORDINATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT; JURISPRUDENCE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE SHARED SAVINGS PROGRAM; NURSE ANESTHETIST; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN FEEDBACK REPORTING PROGRAM; PHYSICIAN QUALITY REPORTING SYSTEM; PRACTICE EXPENSE EQUIPMENT INTEREST RATE; PREPAYMENT MEDICAL REVIEW TERMINATION; REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW; SCOPE OF PRACTICE; UNITED STATES; VALUE BASED PAYMENT MODIFIER;

HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MEDICARE; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866978824     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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