title: Physician Payment after the SGR--The New Meritocracy.
abstract: With the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, Medicare shifts from payment based on macroeconomic indicators to relying on physician- or group-level indicators of cost and quality--and could create a large fee differential between high- and low-performing physicians.
authors.affiliation: From the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston.
authors.forename: Meredith B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Rosenthal
mesh_terms: D016345:Medicare Part B / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010820:Physicians / Q000191:economics*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012052:Reimbursement, Incentive; D014481:United States