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Medicare May Pay More for Primary Care, Less for Procedures

Posted on July 02, 2009

We mentioned yesterday that the feds are proposing their annual tweaks to the way Medicare pays doctors. But we were so busy geeking out on a proposed accounting change that we neglected to mention a few other details likely to be of interest: Namely, the feds want to increase Medicare payments to primary-care docs, and decrease payments to some specialists.This is something that s been bandied about for awhile, and there have been some small shifts in this direction. Still, specialists argue that they often have to train years longer than primary care doctors, and deserve higher pay. (They ...

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