title: Expected impact of RBRVS on physician relationships.
abstract: Physician payment reform will undoubtedly have a significant impact not only on physician income, but also on the environment in which physicians practice. In this article, the author examines the effect implementation of a resource-based relative value scale is likely to have on physicians' relationships with other physicians, with hospitals and managed care companies, and with their patients.
authors: A R
authors: AR
authors: Chenen
mesh_terms: D004465:Economic Competition; D005245:Fee Schedules; D005544:Forecasting; D006761:Hospitals; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D016345:Medicare Part B / Q000639:trends*; D010820:Physicians; D015895:Relative Value Scales; D014481:United States