No, the Stark Law prevents that (self referral, referring to another business the physician has a stake in) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_Law https://en.w

No, the Stark Law prevents that (self referral, referring to another business the physician has a stake in) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_Law . Physicians are paid according to a fee schedule that decides how much each thing they do is worth. Each procedure or office visit is assigned a work Relative Value Unit, which is multiplied by a conversion factor ($36.0391 for Medicare) to determine how much a physician gets paid. Private insurance generally follows the Medicare RVU scale, and has an adjustment ~120-150% for the conversion factor (just a guess, only a student). This conversion factor was $36.6873 in 1998, so, adjusting for inflation, Medicare values each thing a physician does at 62% of what it did in 1998. I hate that most of my posts on this site are about this topic, but so many people on this site get it so wrong when it comes to how physicians are paid.