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Physician Panel Prescribes the Fees Paid by Medicare
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The influence of the AMA convened Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) on how the Medicare payments to doctors is shared, and on the growth of the Medicare budget. Concern that the interested party is driving the decision making process. Medicare costs went up by 9% in 2009. Fears that doctors have too much control over the dollars in the $500 billion Medicare program. The tendency to focus on more expensive procedures and short change preventive and less costly care. Medicare spends $60 billion on doctors fees. The older codes remain in place even when costs are reduced, leading to higher costs for the Medicare budget each year. And there is little incentive for doctors in RUC to revise overvalued codes.
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