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The Secret Committee Behind Our Soaring Health Care Costs

Reimbursement Criteria Creating A Shortage Of Primary Care Physicians?


Primary Care Physicians who treat complicated conditions often need to refer to specialists, which can enormously increase costs. What most doctors do not know is that the AMA has a relatively unknown committee that determines price with no transparency. 
It sets Medicare reimbursement for various treatments based on an elaborate coding system. Specialists obviously will be more highly compensated than primary care physicians.