Exam-Based Care Versus Medical Procedure: Payment Practices That Distort Medicine

Study Reveals How Much Procedures Outpay Office Visits by Robert Lowes.  Medscape.  August 14, 2013.

(1)  The authors of the study recounted here believe their findings "illustrate the need to assign a higher relative value to ___________________________________.

(2)  If a higher relative values is not attached to cognitive-oriented care, procedure-oriented care will ____________________________.

(3)  For physician work hour, Medicare spends almost _________ times as much for a screening colonoscopy and almost _______ times as much for cataract extraction as it does for a __________________.

(4)  Such payment differentials, according to the authors, discourage physicians from______________________.

(5)  The way Medicare computes time devoted to procedures versus evaluation and management tend to be copied by most __________________.