By NextBestFitTask 1.7.1 of 6
Start from the CY Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (about 10,000 codes) and apply specialty-group multipliers.
Who does it
Rates Board
When
Month 3–9
Trade-off
Using Medicare's RBRVS as the base is fast but inherits its known distortions favoring procedures.
Part of: Set the national fee schedule
Adopt Medicare's RBRVS fee schedule as the base, raise primary care to 125% of Medicare, procedural specialties to 105%, and others to 112% on average. Physician & clinical UHP spending becomes $1.05T (price effect −$21.4B, utilization effect +$113.0B).
This step changes 6 existing laws, programs, or institutions. See the list.