Unknown to most, a single committee of the AMA, the chief lobbying group for physicians, meets confidentially every year to come up with values for most of the services a doctor performs.Damn those Insurance Companies, they are just run by Bush--still.
Those values are required under federal law to be based on the time and intensity of the procedures. The values, in turn, determine what Medicare and most private insurers pay doctors.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Who Determines Doctors Pay?
How a secretive panel uses data that distorts doctors’ pay - The Washington Post
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