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| Physician case-by-case assignment and participation in Medicare | | Author(s) | Mingliang Zhang |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 9, no 2, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 19-36 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Health services ; Health insurance ; Costs [care] ; Doctors ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The prospect of budget cuts in Medicare is likely to result in less generous reimbursements from Medicare and therefore affect physicians' willingness to accept Medicare patients with the reduced payments. This study examines physicians' decisions about case-by-case assignment and participation in Medicare in relation to Medicare reimbursement generosity. A two-part model is applied to a database from a national survey of physicians. The results indicate that reimbursement generosity from private insurance relative to that from Medicare negatively affects physicians' assignment rates, implying that older people's access to health care and/or the financial burden is likely to be jeopardised by further reductions in Medicare reimbursements. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981001249 A |
| Classmark | L: WPG: QDC: QT2: 7T |
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