Raising Reimbursement Rates to Combat Specialty Physician Shortages

Raising Reimbursement Rates to Combat Specialty Physician Shortages

This Viewpoint highlights the significance of a new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reimbursement code for inpatient infectious disease physician consultations—the first bonus code targeting a single physician subspecialty—and assesses the potential impact of this strategy on compensation of infectious disease physicians and its broader implications for health care delivery.