title: Tracking Trends In Provider Reimbursements And Patient Obligations.
abstract: Primary payments--those made by insurance carriers--to office-based physicians rose moderately between 2013 and 2014. Payments declined for orthopedics and surgery while increasing for primary care and obstetrics-gynecology. Patients' payment obligations rose for all specialties, and deductibles were the largest category of increased patient spending.
authors.affiliation: Katherine Hempstead (khempstead@rwjf.org) is a director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in Princeton, New Jersey, and a visiting research assistant professor in the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hempstead
authors.affiliation: Iyue Sung is director of athenahealth, in Watertown, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Iyue
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sung
authors.affiliation: Joshua Gray is vice president of athenahealth.
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.affiliation: Stewart Richardson is a senior analyst at athenahealth.
authors.forename: Stewart
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Richardson
mesh_terms: D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000639:trends*; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010820:Physicians / Q000191:economics*; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States
keywords: Business Of Health; Consumer Issues; Cost of Health Care; Physician Payment