Medicare’s Physician Fee Schedule sets prices for roughly 9,000 services, and those prices ripple through the entire US health system. The analysis by Sarah Tingley, Sanket Dhruva, and Rita Redberg of ...
The process that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses to determine relative values for each physician service has been critiqued for undervaluing primary care relative to ...
The November issue of Health Affairs features articles on hospitals, climate and health, and physician payment. The issue also includes articles in our ongoing series Age-Friendly Health (supported b ...
Together, these trends show fewer opioid prescriptions dispensed, less opioid dosage exposure, fewer patients exposed to ...
PhD, is Chief Economist and Chief Regulatory Officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is also a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and previously served as ...
Stephen J. Murphy, PhD, is an economist in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.