nmm 22 4500 ICPSR06563 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130525s1995 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR06563 MiAaI MiAaI Physician Responses to Medicare Payment Reductions [electronic resource] Impacts on the Public and Private Sectors, 1988-1991 Thomas Rice , Sally Stearns 1998-04-28 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 1995 ICPSR 6563 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-25. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public. Also available as downloadable files. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects on physician behavior of decreases in Medicare payment rates for surgical procedures. The study examined the volume of services provided, billed charges, and the selection of diagnostic or therapeutic alternative procedures, or clinically unrelated procedures, for Medicare and privately-insured patients. Also studied were the proportion of physician income derived from Medicare and the profitability of procedures as they related to the volume of services provided. This data collection comprises observations for 21 surgical procedure groups in the specialty areas of general surgery, gastroenterology, orthopedic surgery, ophthalmology, urology, gynecological surgery, thoracic surgery, and cardiology, from up to 187 hospitals and for up to 15 quarters. Efforts were made to include high volume and expensive procedures. Excluded were radiology, pathology, or other lab procedures, and procedures that had experienced erratic changes in volume due to changes in technology or changes in national standards. Also included in this collection are hospital characteristics and county-level data pertaining to number of hospital beds, per capita income, licensed practical nurse and registered nurse wages, doctors per 1000 population, and health maintenance organization enrollees per 1000 population. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06563.v1 hospitals icpsr medical care icpsr medical procedures icpsr Medicare icpsr older adults icpsr ICPSR IX. Health Care and Health Facilities HMCA II. Cost/Access to Health Care NACDA VI. Health Care Needs, Utilization, and Financing for Older Adults Rice, Thomas Stearns, Sally Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 6563 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06563.v1