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In the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 (OBRA '89), Congress directed the Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC or "the Commission") to make recommendations on payment policies for assistants-at-surgery, including physicians, physician assistants (PAs) and registered nurses (RNs). The National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses (NAON), via the Government Relations Committee and Executive Board, participated in the public hearing on this issue and submitted testimony on the role of the RN first assistant during orthopaedic surgery. In its 1991 report to Congress, the Commission recommended that inappropriate utilization of assistants-at-surgery could be reduced by implementing "profiling"--a variety of techniques to examine the use of assistants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEstimating the effect of new technology on Medicare Part B expenditure and volume growth: do related procedures matter?
Adv Health Econ Health Serv Res
November 1993
Center for Health Policy Research, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL.
The new Medicare Part B physician reimbursement system requires the Health Care Financing Administration to consider how medical technology contributes to growth in service volume. One estimate of this effect has been made by the Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC), which estimated how individual new technologies have influenced volume growth. This paper extends the PPRC analysis to include both new technology services and those services that are complementary, or related to, the new technology services.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPPRC and the outcome of physician payment reform.
Internist
January 1992
Physician Payment Review Commission.
Medicine was right to support the new payment system because it will correct geographic inequities and channel more money toward primary care services, writes a member of the Physician Payment Review Commission who serves on the American Medical Association Board of Trustees.
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