Differences in the Complexity of Office Visits by Physician Specialty: NAMCS 2013-2016.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Specialty-to-specialty variation in use of outpatient evaluation and management service codes could lead to important differences in reimbursement among specialties.

Objective

To compare the complexity of visits to physicians whose incomes are largely dependent on evaluation and management services to the complexity of visits to physicians whose incomes are largely dependent on procedures.

Design, setting, and participants

We analyzed 53,670 established patient outpatient visits reported by physicians in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) from 2013 to 2016. We defined high complexity visits as those with an above average number of diagnoses (> 2) and/or medications (> 3) listed We based our comparison on time intervals corresponding to typi

SUBMITTER: Goodson JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7280404 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature