title: Plans' execs mixed on impact of fee schedule.
abstract: With Medicare's physician fee schedule set to begin phasing in this January, executives at healthcare plans and medical groups are mixed on the impact of the plan. Because the schedule will lower fees for specialists and raise payments to primary-care providers, many healthcare managers are concerned about cost shifting. Others expect the schedule to have a minimal effect on fees because many prepaid plans already have resource-based payment methodologies.
authors: P J
authors: PJ
authors: Kenkel
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005245:Fee Schedules; D006123:Group Practice / Q000191:economics; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics; D016345:Medicare Part B / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States