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. -- read the full report from FierceHealthFinance