[Physician services expenditure rate of increase under Medicare volume performance standards

By Donna E. Shalala

Subjects: Medicare, Physician services utilization, Costs, Statistics, Medical fees

Description: Report in letter format from Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services to Sam Gibbons, Acting Chairman, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means; Daniel P. Moynihan, Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance; John D. Dingell, Chairman, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce; Joseph E. Ross, Director, Congressional Research Service; Paul Ginsburg, Ph.D., Executive Director, Physician Payment Review Commission; and Robert Reischauer, Ph.D., Director, Congressional Budget Office which compares the rate of increase in expenditures for physician services for the first half of fiscal years (FY) 1993 and 1994 under the Medicare volume performance standards (MVPS).