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Showing posts with label RUC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RUC. Show all posts
Another Attempt to Show the RUC Behind the Curtain
US Senate Subcommittee Asks What the RUC is About
It has been a long time coming, but the issue of how the US Medicare and Medicaid system sets the fees it pays doctors, and hence sets the i...
BLOGSCAN - Why Not Just Pay Physicians By the Hour?
We have frequently discussed how perverse incentives are spread around health care. In the US, the physicians are paid according to a syst...
RUCing About - Conflicts of Interest Affecting the Members of the RBRVS Update Committee
Since 2007, we have been writing about the secretive RUC (RBRVS Update Committee), the private AMA committee that somehow has managed to ge...
BLOGSCAN: Circling the Wagons Around the RUC
On the Care and Cost Blog, Brian Klepper suggested that the defenders of the RUC (RBRVS Update Committee) are getting worried. He showed ...
Getting Out of Our RUC - "An Open Letter To Primary Care Physicians"
Since 2007, we have been writing about the secretive RUC (RBRVS Update Committee), the private AMA committee that somehow has managed to ge...
"Replace the RUC!"
We have frequently posted, first here in 2007 , and more recently here and here , about the little-known group that controls how the US Med...
RUC It Up - How the US Government Fixes Physicians' Payments Becomes Less Anechoic
We have frequently posted, first here in 2007 , and most recently here and here , about the little-known group that controls how the US Med...
RUC Off - the New England Journal Once Again Fails to Mention the Unmentionable
Last week, the influential New England Journal of Medicine published an article by Bruce Vladek entitled "Fixing Medicare's Physici...
The Health Care Reform Bill and Health Care Renewal
I have not written much about the seemingly endless health care reform debate in the US, because much of it has not been relevant to the iss...
