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S Zuckerman

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Trends in Medicaid physician fees, 1993-1998.

This study uses data on Medicaid physician fees in 1993 and 1998 to document variation in fees across the country, describe changes in these fees, and contrast how they changed relative to those in Medicare. The results show that 1998 Medicaid fees varied widely. Medicaid fees grew 4.6 percent between 1993 and 1998, lagging behind the general rate of inflation. This growth was greater for primary care services than for other services studied. Relative to Medicare physician fees, Medicaid fees fell by 14.3 percent between 1993 and 1998. Medicaid's low fees and slow growth rates suggest that potential access problems among Medicaid enrollees remain a policy issue that should be monitored.

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Understanding the recent growth in Medicare physician expenditures.

This study employs several large Health Care Financing Administration data sets for 1983 and 1985 to examine the recent growth in Medicare physician services. The study concludes that the recent growth (approximately 15% in real terms between 1983 and 1985) has been more rapid in areas with higher incomes per capita and suggests that this may be related to faster adoption and diffusion of new medical technologies in these areas. The volume of physician services had grown considerably faster for those specialists who utilize newer procedures and technologies than for those who do not. The study also provides evidence that the sharp increase in assignment rates in recent years because of the introduction of the physician participation program also contributed to the growth in physician services during this period. Medicare's prospective payment system, which controlled hospital payments and encouraged hospitals to become more efficient, had at most a small positive impact on the growth in Part B spending. Finally, the freeze on physician's fees did not seem to have had a major impact on the volume of physician services.

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