Comparison of Physician Charges and Allowances Under Private Health Insurance Plans and Medicare
HRD-79-111
Published: Sep 06, 1979. Publicly Released: Sep 10, 1979.
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A comparison was made of the actual and allowed charges for physicians at four commercial and two Blue Shield Medicare carriers for their private and Medicare businesses. An assessment was also made of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's (HEW) use of a Medicare provision requiring that charges allowed as reasonable under Medicare not be higher than those allowed under Medicare carriers' private business for comparable services and circumstances. This provision was meant to limit program costs.
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