By NextBestFitTask 1.7.4 of 6
Publish 4-year convergence paths: each provider's payments move 25% per year from its current blended rate to the UHP rate.
Who does it
UHA
When
Month 9
Trade-off
Four-year convergence cushions specialists but delays savings.
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.