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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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....
View ArticleResidents 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...
View ArticleResponse 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...
View ArticleAdding 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...
View ArticleThe 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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