{"id":176,"date":"2012-10-23T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2012-10-23T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:56:00","slug":"jama-aim-physicians-opinions-about-reforming-reimbursementresults-of-a-national-surveyreforming-reimbursement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"JAMA- AIM | Physicians&#8217; Opinions About Reforming ReimbursementResults of a National SurveyReforming Reimbursement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=226129\">Physicians&#8217; Opinions About Reforming Reimbursement Results of a National SurveyReforming Reimbursement<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Results<\/b>     <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The response rate was 48.5% (n = 1222). Four of 5 physicians (78.4%) indicated that under Medicare, some procedures are compensated too highly and others are compensated at rates insufficient to cover costs. Incentives were the most frequently supported reform option (49.1%), followed by shifting payments (41.6%) and bundling (17.2%). Shifting payments and bundling were more commonly supported by generalists than by other specialists.<b><i> There was broad support for increasing pay for generalists (79.8%), but a proposal to offset the increase with a 3% reduction in specialist reimbursement was supported by only 39.1% of physicians.<\/i><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><b>Conclusions<\/b>     <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Physicians are dissatisfied with Medicare reimbursement and show little consensus for major proposals to reform reimbursement. The successful adoption of payment reform proposals may require a better understanding of physicians&#8217; concerns and their willingness to make tradeoffs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicians&#8217; Opinions About Reforming Reimbursement Results of a National SurveyReforming Reimbursement Results The response rate was 48.5% (n = 1222). Four of 5 physicians (78.4%) indicated that under Medicare, some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JAMA- AIM | Physicians&#8217; Opinions About Reforming ReimbursementResults of a National SurveyReforming Reimbursement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physician-income","category-physician-surveys"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}