Medicare reimburses physicians up to five times more for performing common   procedures than for cognitive care, allowing specialists to generate more   revenue in an hour or two than a primary care physician makes in a day, a new study published online by JAMA Internal Medicine finds.

A physician makes 368 percent more doing a colonoscopy than spending the same   amount of time on cognitive care, according to the study abstract. The   reimbursement for removing a cataract is 486 percent higher than comparable   cognitive care.

The study “illustrates the financial pressures that may contribute to the   U.S. healthcare system’s emphasis on procedural care,” the researchers   conclude.

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