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In 2007, readers of the Annals of Internal Medicine could read part of the solution to a great medical mystery.(1)  For years, health care c...

It has been a long time coming, but the issue of how the US Medicare and Medicaid system sets the fees it pays doctors, and hence sets the i...

We have frequently discussed how perverse incentives are spread around health care.  In the US, the physicians are paid according to a syst...

Since 2007, we have been writing about the secretive RUC (RBRVS Update Committee), the private AMA committee that somehow has managed to ge...

On the Care and Cost Blog, Brian Klepper suggested that the defenders of the RUC (RBRVS Update Committee) are getting worried.  He showed ...

Since 2007, we have been writing about the secretive RUC (RBRVS Update Committee), the private AMA committee that somehow has managed to ge...

We have frequently posted, first here in 2007 , and more recently here and here , about the little-known group that controls how the US Med...

We have frequently posted, first here in 2007 , and most recently here and here , about the little-known group that controls how the US Med...

Last week, the influential New England Journal of Medicine published an article by Bruce Vladek entitled "Fixing Medicare's Physici...

I have not written much about the seemingly endless health care reform debate in the US, because much of it has not been relevant to the iss...

An important part of the noisy and contentious debate about health care reform in the US centers on the role of the government as a provider...