Sentence examples for relative payments from inspiring English sources
It phases these benchmarks in gradually in order to avoid disruption to beneficiaries, taking into account the relative payments to fee-for-service costs in an area.
*Update, 17 June, 5 41 p.m.: We have replaced the original graph, in which circle size reflected relative payments among each publisher, with one where the size is relative to all the payments together.
Some argue these relative payments should be adjusted; shifting that balance, however, will differentially affect various specialties.
The figure illustrates that otolaryngology and ophthalmology stand out with especially high relative payments, being approximately twice the level of the other specialties.
Results are displayed in Table 4. Relative payments are calculated using a ratio of means (ROM): average payments for beneficiaries with the condition divided by the average payments for beneficiaries with none of the selected conditions.
What's the relative value of weights between anesthesiologists, gastroenterologists, surgeons?' And set the relative values at what the physician community thinks the relative payment should be".
The estimated effects of the relative payment variable are much larger for cataract episodes, and there is also stronger evidence of correlations with the supplies of physicians.
Even though changes in the supply of specialists and changes in Medicare relative payment rates have similar quantitative effects (Table 2), the cost and speed of implementing a change in reimbursement policy are much lower and faster than trying to use policy to change the relative supplies (and locations) of physicians in different specialties.
In 2012, before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, he said, "Part of the problem is that [the Medicare payment system] not only sets relative Medicare payments, it's used by almost everybody else in the health care system as a way of evaluating the relative worth of physician services".
All variables relative to payments are expressed in per-capita terms, using only the population in 2007 as the denominator.
The latter result is applied to questions of contest design and more general forms of relative performance payment.
