FEES AND ENCROACHMENT ON PRIVATE PRACTICE

Fees and Encroachment on Private Practice.

To the Editors of THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY. DEAR SIRS,-I write to congratulate those responsible for the Annotation-Fees-in your Journal of July, which gives timely support to the long-established custom of doctors engaged in private practice being free to name their own fees and mnodify them to meet their patients' circumstances. As there can be little doubt that the pre-eminence o...

an investigation of the impact of self monitoring on langauge teachers motivational practice and its effect on learners motivation

the central purpose of this study was to conduct a case study about the role of self monitoring in teacher’s use of motivational strategies. furthermore it focused on how these strategies affected students’ motivational behavior. although many studies have been done to investigate teachers’ motivational strategies use (cheng & d?rnyei, 2007; d?rnyei & csizer, 1998; green, 2001, guilloteaux & d?...

How do Medicare Physician Fees Compare With Private Payers?

Under the new fee schedule, Medicare physician fees are 76 percent of private fees. Consistent with the intent of payment reform, Medicare physician fees more closely approximate private fees for visits (93 percent) than for surgery (51 percent) and in rural areas as compared with large metropolitan areas. Variation in private fees across the country is considerably greater than it is for Medic...

Cost of practice and geographic variation in Medicare fees.

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