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Increases in Primary Care Physician Income due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010--Continued Tweaking of Physician Payment

Description
Examines changes authorized by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) to the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) system aimed at increasing primary care physician personal income and reducing geographic variation in primary care payment. Looks at ACA-authorized primary care payment adjustments in a prototypical rural primary care practice to assess the potential impact on physician personal income and the likelihood that the changes will achieve the desired policy outcome.
Author(s)
A. Clinton MacKinney
Date
07/2010
Type
Document
Organization
RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Tagged as
Income · Legislation and regulations · Physicians · Primary care · Reimbursement and payment models · State-by-state data · State-by-state

Organizations (1)

  • RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis, view details