{"id":25566,"date":"2026-03-02T15:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=25566"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:31:11","slug":"docs-land-nearly-400-million-in-first-year-of-controversial-medicare-billing-code-medscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/docs-land-nearly-400-million-in-first-year-of-controversial-medicare-billing-code-medscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Docs Land Nearly $400 Million in First Year of Controversial Medicare Billing Code\u2014MedScape<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Andrew Schuman, a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics, is quoted in an article about compensation for medical professionals. \"Primary care is the base of a pyramid where we generate a lot of services and generate a lot of revenue for institutions and for specialists,\" Schuman said. \"It's an important code because it emphasizes the importance of providers in coordinating care.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Andrew Schuman, a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics, is quoted in an article about compensation for medical professionals. “Primary care is the base of a pyramid where we generate a lot of services and generate a lot of revenue for institutions and for specialists,” Schuman said. “It’s an important code because it emphasizes the importance of providers in coordinating care.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-6Em","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25567,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25566\/revisions\/25567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}