title: Leap of Faith--Medicare's New Physician Payment System.
abstract: Medicare's new payment system reflects the movement toward value-based payment, which is built on the view that we can contain costs only by eliminating fee-for-service payment. But there are important problems with this belief and the reforms it inspires.
authors.affiliation: From the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (J.O.); and Columbia University, New York (M.J.L.).
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oberlander
authors.forename: Miriam J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Laugesen
mesh_terms: D060866:Accountable Care Organizations; D016345:Medicare Part B / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010820:Physicians / Q000191:economics*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States