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American Health Care Reform: Observations from Health Care Analysts
Brian Klepper Here we are, with the first edition of Health Wonk Review (HWR) in a new decade. It is a pregnant moment, as reconciliation begins between the House and Senate health care reform bills,...
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The AMA’s Spin
Brian Klepper In case you don’t believe the AMA takes challenges to its role as CMS’ sole advisor on medical procedure valuation seriously, check out this letter that was sent by 2009 RUC Chair William...
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Conflicts of Interests Among The RUC’s Members
Roy Poses First published 4/26/11 on Health Care Renewal Since 2007, we have been writing about the secretive RUC (RBRVS Update Committee), the private AMA committee that somehow has managed to get...
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Quiet Coziness with Wall Street
Roy M. Poses, MD Posted 12/09/11 on Health Care Renewal An article from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) reveals a new aspect of the growing coziness between the US government and big...
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The War on Health Care Fraud Needs a Champion
Merrill Goozner Posted 1/09/12 on Gooz News My regular readers know how much importance I attach to the war on waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs (see posts here and here)....
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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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