Open AccessTracking Trends In Provider Reimbursements And Patient Obligations
Author(s) -
Katherine Hempstead,
Iyue Sung,
Joshua C. Gray,
Stewart Richardson
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
health affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.837
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 2694-233X
pISSN - 0278-2715
DOI - 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0105
Subject(s) - payment , primary care , business , practice management , medicine , health insurance , family medicine , health care , medical emergency , finance , political science , law
Primary payments--those made by insurance carriers--to office-based physicians rose moderately between 2013 and 2014. Payments declined for orthopedics and surgery while increasing for primary care and obstetrics-gynecology. Patients' payment obligations rose for all specialties, and deductibles were the largest category of increased patient spending.