Modernizing The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Part 1: The Role Of A Technical Expert Panel | Health Affairs Forefront
This is part one of a three-part article on policy issues in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The topics covered include: the role a technical expert panel could play in modernizing the fee schedule (part 1), whether annual updates to the fee schedule based on the Medicare Economic Index are needed (part 2), and improving the accuracy of the fee schedule’s budget neutrality provision with a lookback period to correct misestimates (part 3).
