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Conflict of interest on Medicare fee commitee?

August 16, 2015by Robert Whitcomb in Uncategorized tagged ,

 

 

Does Medicare rely too heavily on the American Medical Association to recommend fees for physicians who treat Medicare patients? That’s what a report from the Government Accountability Office suggests.

The report says that payment decisions may be biased because the 31 physicians on the Relative Value Scale Update Committee have potential conflicts of interest: They benefit when the government assigns higher values to their services.

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