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A Modest Proposal:What if all Specialty Procedures Were Coded with Four CPT...
Paul Fischer In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Barbara Levy, Chairwoman of the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), commented on the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) decision to...
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Primary Care in Revolt
Brian Klepper Last Thursday Anna Wilde Mathews of the Wall Street Journal ran an article detailing the activities surrounding primary care’s gradual awakening and mobilization. With Tom McGinty, Ms....
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Residents and Medical Students Should Support Efforts to Revalue Cognitive...
Kevin Bernstein First posted 9/17/11 on The Future of Family Medicine The numbers do not lie. As stated in a previous post and its referenced links, the payment gap between primary care and...
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Response To RUC Chair Barbara Levy’s Comment on the Health Affairs Blog
Brian’s Note: Last week David Kibbe and I posted a Health Affairs Blog column, Trusting Government: A Tale of Two Federal Advisory Groups, that compared the openness and transparency of the Health...
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Adding Seats: The RUC’s Sleight of Hand
Paul Fischer and Brian Klepper Posted 3/14/12 on The Health Affairs Blog ©2012 Health Affairs by Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. On February 1, the American Medical...
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The RUC Is Bad Medicine: It Has To Go
Brian Klepper Posted 8/12/13 on Medscape Business of Medicine “One of the biggest mistakes we made … is that we took the RUC … back in 1992 and gave it to the AMA. … It’s incredibly political, and it’s...
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