{"id":15056,"date":"2020-01-24T06:11:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T11:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15056"},"modified":"2020-01-24T06:11:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T11:11:41","slug":"medicare-may-be-overpaying-surgeons-for-many-procedures-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15056","title":{"rendered":"Medicare may be overpaying surgeons for many procedures, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n<p>Medicare could be paying surgeons for postoperative care that isn&#8217;t provided, according to a new RAND Corp. analysis published in the\u00a0New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/medicare-may-be-overpaying-surgeons-for-many-procedures-study-finds.html?origin=PayerE&amp;utm_source=PayerE&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;oly_enc_id=0773J2160145A4E\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file0001786007208-700x525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8944\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file0001786007208-700x525-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file0001786007208-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file0001786007208-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Medicare could be paying surgeons for postoperative care that isn&#8217;t provided, according to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15057,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056\/revisions\/15057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}