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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Is fee-for-service the smoking gun for U.S. health care spending?
Description: This episode originally aired on November 10, 2020.The U.S. health policy community recognizes that fee-for-service models incentivize physicians and health systems to perform more tasks than may be needed. And, these models can contribute to industry fragmentation as organizations chase revenue.But is fee-for-service really the smoking gun when it comes to the high levels of U.S. health care spending?The answer is, unsurprisingly, complicated. To discuss, Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Dr. Michael K. Gusmano, professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health and research scholar at The...