2011, 32 (6) 981-983 AJNR Am J Neuroradiol spending at the level of overall price inflation;
the other, at the gross domestic product plus a small percentage. If one used data from …

Physicians generally have been affected by significant changes in the patterns of medical
practice evolving over the past several decades. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care …

Physician spending is complex and intrinsically related to national health care spending,
government regulations, health care reform, private insurers, physician practice and patient …

On August 2, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final
rule (CMS-1694-P) that they hoped would provide patients and caregivers better access to …

Medicare Part B payments to the economic performance of the United States. Although
sensible in concept, the political implementation of the SGR resulted in a failed and perilous …

Although we as physicians have developed knowledge and expertise in reporting and
analyzing clinical outcome, costs remain for most neurosurgeons a no-man's-land, or …

2013, 34 (1) 3-4 AJNR Am J Neuroradiol demic endeavors but also about how their teachers
look.“Hot” professors make, on average, 6% higher wages than their not-sohot counterparts …

Stimulated by our ongoing uncertainty about which unruptured cerebral aneurysms to treat
brought about by a near-complete lack of meaningful clinical trial data, facilitated by …

To understand the Medicare compensation system for physi-cian services, it is necessary to
understand how the relative values of medical services are translated into fee schedule …

On August 3, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the
2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Proposed Rule. The MPFS is used by CMS …