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  • Title: Physician payment reform: how will medical specialties fare under the new Medicare fee schedule?
    Author: Becker ER, Adams EK, Fleming NS.
    Journal: Med Staff Couns; 1992; 6(1):1-6. PubMed ID: 10115447.
    Abstract:
    In 1989, the federal government legislated a major overhaul of the Medicare payment system for physician services, to be implemented beginning in January 1992. Under the new plan, payments will be set according to a national fee schedule based primarily on a "resource-based relative value scale." This article summarizes the development of the new payment system and explores the likely impact of its implementation on medical and surgical specialties.
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