title: Paying for physician services under Medicare and Medicaid.
abstract: Public systems for physician reimbursement aim to reconcile two disparate objectives: ensuring availability of services to the poor and aged; and keeping rates of cost increase within acceptable limits. Several interesting--and unorthodox--policy simulations of physician pricing behavior are investigated through econometric estimation. Current arrangement for paying physicians are fraught with difficulties. The objectives of Medicare and Medicaid are not well served.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002140:California; D003363:Cost Control; D004526:Efficiency; D005251:Fees, Medical; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007357:Insurance, Physician Services / Q000191:economics*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D011640:Public Policy; D014481:United States