Medicare Part B Clinician Payment Programs And The Growing Costs Of Administrative Complexity | Health Affairs Forefront
The number and complexity of clinician payment models in Medicare Part B has grown substantially without yielding the expected savings or quality improvement gains. Increasing the number of payment models available to clinicians multiplicatively increases fixed administration costs while blunting the effectiveness of cost-reducing measures in accountable care relationships. As a result, policy efforts should be directed at engaging clinicians in a streamlined set of whole-person, population-based care models.
