title: Hospital executives anxious over ramifications of final physician fee rules.
abstract: The final Medicare physician fee schedule regulations represent the biggest change to the Medicare system since it was enacted 26 years ago. The new rules, which will dramatically change the way physicians are paid, have hospitals scrambling to comprehend their effects while looking for ways to keep delicate relations with their medical staffs from deteriorating.
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authors: Weissenstein
mesh_terms: D005245:Fee Schedules / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006780:Hospitals, Rural / Q000191:economics; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000191:economics; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D016345:Medicare Part B / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D015895:Relative Value Scales; D014481:United States