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Mark J. Segal, PhD

JAMA. 1985;254(18):2639-2640.

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Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are being considered by policymakers as a basis of physician reimbursement for care provided to Medicare inpatients. Under such a system, all physicians' care associated with a hospital admission, classified into one of over 400 DRGs, would be paid for by Medicare in one lump sum. The attractiveness of aggregating the unit of payment, from the individual service to a "package" of services, here the hospital case, lies in the anticipation of new incentives for greater physician cost consciousness. The report by Lowenstein and colleagues¹ in this issue of THE JOURNAL is one product of an intensive effort, launched by the Department of Health and Human Services and its Health Care Financing Administration, to fulfill a congressional mandate to explore the "advisability and feasibility" of extending Medicare DRG payment, already in place for hospitals, to physicians. The conclusions from this research are to be presented in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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American Medical Association Chicago

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