Medicare may be overpaying surgeons for many procedures, study finds

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review)

Medicare could be paying surgeons for postoperative care that isn’t provided, according to a new RAND Corp. analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Researchers with the nonprofit research organization RAND Corp. and Harvard Medical School in Boston reviewed information Medicare began collecting in 2017 from a sample of the nation’s surgeons. Data suggests surgeons only provide a small portion of the postoperative care that is built into bundled payments for services, according to the report.  Continue reading article here…

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