title: Refining Medicare Volume Performance Standards.
abstract: This commentary focuses on the current workings of Medicare's Volume Performance Standards and possible alternatives that would make the program more effective in containing costs. The author presents his own perspectives as well as examining the options put forward in the two related papers by Holahan and Auckerman and Miller and Welch published in this issue of Inquiry.
authors.affiliation: Physician Payment Review Commission, Washington, DC 20037.
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Ginsburg
mesh_terms: D005245:Fee Schedules / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D016345:Medicare Part B / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015284:Physician Payment Review Commission; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D014481:United States