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When health policy experts talk about ways to improve how Medicare and commercial health plans pay for care, they often recommend eliminating what’s called the site-of-service payment differential.
This differential allows hospitals to charge more than physicians can charge for doing the same service, in part because hospitals have more overhead.
For patients, the difference can affect whether a copayment is low if care is delivered in a doctor’s office or high if the service is done in a hospital. Continue reading
