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Quicker incentives needed for medical home coordination
Despite hope resting on the concept of the patient-centered medical home, widespread patient access to such care remains a far-off reality, prompting the American Medical Association (AMA) to push
Docs sue CMS, launch task force to improve primary care pay
In a symbolic move representing physicians' frustration over having their Medicare reimbursement determined by a secret panel known as the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), six Georgia
Docs suggest primary care boycott of 'unfair' secret payment panel
The cloak-and-dagger group that recommends how much CMS should pay doctors should not be the only voice when it comes to giving payment advice, Drs. Brian Klepper and David C. Kibbe write in Kaiser
Hey secret pay panel, why so mysterious?
Was anyone else surprised by this week's revelation in the Wall Street Journal about a secret physician panel that provides input to help define fees paid by Medicare? The secret panel, known as the
Physician group pressures CMS to demand changes in pay panel
Looks like CMS had already been getting pressure to revamp the system that relies on a secret panel of doctors to help set the values of codes in the Medicare physician fee schedule. In a letter
