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Tag Archives: American Medical Association
Strengthening Primary Care With a New Professional Congress
Brian Klepper Posted 10/01/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog Three months ago a post on this blog argued that America’s primary care associations, societies and membership groups have splintered into narrowly-focused specialties. Individually and together, they have proved unable to resist decades … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Klepper, Conflicts of Interest, Health Care Cost, Market Dynamics, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics
Tagged American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, American Geriatrics Society, American Medical Association, American Osteopathic Association, Primary Care, RUC, Society of General Internal Medicine
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Should Family Physicians Leave the RUC?
Brian Klepper Posted 3/30/12 on KevinMD Last June the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) sent a letter to the AMA’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) demanding specific changes to the ways that the RUC conducts its business. Primary care … Continue reading
Who Will Pay For the Doc Pay Fix?
Merrill Goozner Published 11/25/11 in the Fiscal Times Holiday cheer and bipartisan bonhomie are still possible on Capitol Hill. For evidence, one need only look at the so-called “doc fix,” where Congress every year overrides a previous effort at health … Continue reading
Rethinking the Value of Medical Services
Brian Klepper and David C. Kibbe First posted 8/1/11 on The Health Affairs Blog Copyright ©2011 Health Affairs by Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. One of American politics’ most disingenuous conceits is that health care must cost what … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Brian Klepper, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Reform
Tagged AMA, American Medical Association, Brian Klepper, David C. Kibbe, Primary Care, RBRVS, Relative Value Scale Update Committee, Resource Based Relative Value Scale, RUC
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Dealing Strategically With the RUC to Boost Family Physician Payment
Lori Heim First posted 7/13/11 on AAFP News Now Brian’s Note: Regular readers will recall that in January, David C. Kibbe and I wrote a piece calling on America’s primary care societies to quit the RUC, the secretive, specialist-dominated AMA … Continue reading
The RUC’s Defense
Brian Klepper On Wednesday, 47 American medical specialty societies sent Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) a letter, with copies to all members of Congress, containing a detailed defense of the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC). For … Continue reading
