Book ID: CBB605902836

Fixing Medical Prices: How Physicians Are Paid (2016)

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Laugesen, Miriam J. (Author)


Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 288 pp.
Language: English

Medical care prices in the United States are not only the most expensive in the world, but there are wide variations in what physicians are paid. Doctors at the frontlines of medical care who manage complex conditions argue that they receive disproportionately lower fees than physicians performing services such as minor surgeries and endoscopies. Fixing Medical Prices goes to the heart of the U.S. medical pricing process: to a largely unknown yet influential committee of medical organizations affiliated with the American Medical Association that advises Medicare. Medicare’s ready acceptance of this committee’s recommendations typically sets off a chain reaction across the entire American health care system.For decades, the U.S. policymaking structure for pricing has reflected the influence of physician organizations. What Miriam Laugesen’s rich analysis shows is how these organizations navigate the arcane and complex work of this advisory committee. Contradicting the story of a profession in political decline, Fixing Medical Prices demonstrates that the power of physician organizations has simply become more subtle.Laugesen’s investigation into the exorbitant cost of American medical care will be of interest to those who follow the politics of health care policy, the influence of interest groups on rate setting, and the medical profession’s past and future role in our health care system.

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Authors & Contributors
Marchildon, Gregory P.
Sarah F. Liebschutz
Gillick, Muriel R.
Wright, David
Whooley, Owen
Weiss, Richard M.
Concepts
Medicine and government
Health care
Medicare
Public health
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Canada
Saskatchewan (Canada)
Sweden
Portugal
New York (U.S.)
Institutions
American Medical Association
United States. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA)
Rockefeller Foundation
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