Digestive Health Physicians Association

Curbs on physician self-referrals in Medicare may have made sense in a fee-for-service environment, but they present significant barriers to payment reform as the nation moves to value-based models.

The authors, both members of the Digestive Health Physicians Association, write about efforts in their home state and at the federal level to reform payer restrictions.

In the first of a series from the Digestive Health Physicians Association, Dr Lawrence R. Kosinski writes about Project Sonar, an innovative proposed Advanced APM that has cleared the first regulatory step. Project Sonar has saved thousands in hospitalization costs in pilot studies.