Fixing Medical Prices : How Physicians Are Paid / Miriam J. Laugesen.
2017
RA410.53 .L385 2016
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Title
Fixing Medical Prices : How Physicians Are Paid / Miriam J. Laugesen.
Author
Laugesen, Miriam J., author.
ISBN
9780674545380
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (238 p.) : 1 halftone, 12 tables
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674545380 doi
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RA410.53 .L385 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.4/73621
Summary
Medical care prices in the United States are not only the most expensive in the world, but there are wide variations in what physicians are paid. Doctors at the frontlines of medical care who manage complex conditions argue that they receive disproportionately lower fees than physicians performing services such as minor surgeries and endoscopies. Fixing Medical Prices goes to the heart of the U.S. medical pricing process: to a largely unknown yet influential committee of medical organizations affiliated with the American Medical Association that advises Medicare. Medicare's ready acceptance of this committee's recommendations typically sets off a chain reaction across the entire American health care system. For decades, the U.S. policymaking structure for pricing has reflected the influence of physician organizations. What Miriam Laugesen's rich analysis shows is how these organizations navigate the arcane and complex work of this advisory committee. Contradicting the story of a profession in political decline, Fixing Medical Prices demonstrates that the power of physician organizations has simply become more subtle. Laugesen's investigation into the exorbitant cost of American medical care will be of interest to those who follow the politics of health care policy, the influence of interest groups on rate setting, and the medical profession's past and future role in our health care system.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: The House of Medicine and Medical Prices
2. The Enduring Influence of the House of Medicine over Prices
3. The Science of Work and Payment Reform
4. How Doctors Get Paid
5. Conflicts of Interest and Problems of Evidence
6. Complexity, Agency Capture, and the Game of Codes
7. Conclusion
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: The House of Medicine and Medical Prices
2. The Enduring Influence of the House of Medicine over Prices
3. The Science of Work and Payment Reform
4. How Doctors Get Paid
5. Conflicts of Interest and Problems of Evidence
6. Complexity, Agency Capture, and the Game of Codes
7. Conclusion
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index