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Tag Archives: Primary Care
Why Aren’t Primary Care Physicians More Ticked off about the RUC? An Interview with Brian Klepper
Brandon Glenn Published 4/30/13 in Medical Economics If primary care physicians have a bigger enemy than the RUC, Brian Klepper, PhD, hasn’t heard about it. The American Medical Association’s (AMA) Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) is a 31-physician panel that wields enormous influence … Continue reading
How Primary Care Became the Job Nobody Wanted (and How To Fix It))
Brian Klepper Posted 11/21/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog Here a link on SlideServe to my plenary presentation on CMS’ relationship with the AMA’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), and how/why it has undermined American primary care. … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Klepper, Health Care Cost, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Reform
Tagged Cost, Primary Care, RUC, RVS Update Committee
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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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The Wrong Battles
Brian Klepper Posted 9/20/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog This week the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) issued a new report describing its vision of primary care’s future. Not surprisingly, the report talks about medical homes, with patient-centered, team-based care. More surprisingly, though, … Continue reading
Demanding More From Medical Homes
Brian Klepper Published 9/4/12 in Medical Home News Never confuse motion with action. Benjamin Franklin A reporter called the other day to tell me that several local health systems now had medical homes. “I don’t think so,” I said. She was emphatic. … Continue reading
The Most Important Health Care Group You’ve Never Heard Of
Brian Klepper and Paul Fischer Posted 8/06/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog Excessive health care spending is overwhelming America’s economy, but the subtler truth is that this excess has been largely facilitated by subjugating primary care. A wealth of evidence shows … Continue reading
Implementing Health Reform: Increasing Medicaid Payments for Primary Care Physicians
Timothy Jost Posted 5/10/12 on the Health Affairs Blog On May 9, 2012, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services released proposed regulations to implement section 1202 of the Health Care and Education Reform Act of 2010. Section 1202 increases Medicaid payments … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care Cost, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Reform
Tagged Health Reform, Medicaid, Medicare, Primary Care
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A Health Affairs Study on Medicare Spending and the RUC
Chris Fleming Posted 5/7/12 on the Health Affairs Blog ©2012 Health Affairs by Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. To calculate physicians’ fees under Medicare—which in turn influence private payers’ decisions on how they will pay doctors—the Centers for … Continue reading
The ACP’s Cognitive Dissonance
Brian Klepper Relative to their specialist colleagues, primary care physicians have been generally passive about the politics that shape their professional lives, and they have been big losers. It is important for them to consider whether their societies are genuinely … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Klepper, Conflicts of Interest, Health Care Cost, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics
Tagged AAFP, AAP, ACP, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, American Osteopathic Association, AOA, Bob Doherty, David C. Kibbe, Paul Fischer, Primary Care
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The Economics of Being a Practicing Physician: Greater Frustration, Lower Income, More Defensive
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Posted 4/26/12 on Health Populi One-half of physicians believe they’re not fairly compensated for their work – in particular, those working in primary care. Only 11% of doctors considering themselves “rich.”Medscape’s 2012 Physician Compensation Report compiled data from over … Continue reading
Pay Some Doctors More to Save Money
Paul Levy Posted 3/26/12 on Not Running a Hospital One of the strange things about health care in America is the manner in which decisions are made about how different kinds of doctors should get paid for their services. It … Continue reading
Paying for Primary Care
Bradley Flansbaum Posted 3/5/12 on the Hospitalist Leader I recently gave grand rounds at my hospital, and spoke on specialty over primary care dominance in the U.S. system. I focused on the difficulties of care coordination, i.e., “the stress” of … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Quality, Reform
Tagged Payment, Primary Care, Specialty Care
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