Current Valuation of Pathology Service

Health care reform has accelerated as the existing health care system undergoes continuing financial stress. Medicare’s new value-based payment system, commonly referred to as MACRA, provides opportunities for physicians to participate in this new system in a variety of ways. However, many of the value-based adjustments are based on existing valuations of services through traditional mechanisms. To achieve appropriate valuation of pathologist’s services in the new payment models, it is imperative that we continue to achieve proper valuation of services through the traditional mechanisms.
Source: Advances in Anatomic Pathology - Category: Pathology Tags: Review Articles Source Type: research