A brief review of the Meaningful Use incentive program for eligible professionals is
presented, highlighting the legislative history, criteria, and incentive payment plan of the …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: There has been a steady increase in the utilization of
expensive outpatient imaging studies, with a resultant increase in health care costs. To …

The Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) has been the defining algorithm for
professional reimbursement of medical services since its introduction in 1992. This article …

The year 1965 was critical for US health care policy. In that year, Medicare was created as
part of the Social Security Act under President Lyndon B. Johnson after several earlier …

A brief review of the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) is presented highlighting
the program's legislative history, eligibility requirements and incentive payment plan …

Payment for physician services in the United States is directly tied to the payment system
implemented in the Medicare system. The use of a code to categorize medical and surgical …

The question of what to do about the escalating costs of providing health care to the citizens
of the United States has dominated the politics of this country over the past 3 years. Although …

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 …

The decade of the 1980s brought forth a significant number of profound changes in the
manner in which health care goods and services are provided to the US population. In 1983 …

Meaningful use legislation was first introduced in the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009 as a multistaged program to incentivize adoption of electronic health record …