Set the national fee schedule

Months 3–15; annual updates thereafter · Payment Rates Board; UHADiscuss this step

Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (RBRVS) & the AMA RUC

amendedYear 0–2Provider payment & regulation

Today

Medicare fees anchor all payers; relative values largely developed by the AMA's RUC committee.

Under the plan

Becomes the UHP national fee schedule, rebalanced toward primary care; independent review of relative values.

Trade-off

Primary care gains, procedural specialists lose.