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Plain language summary
This Viewpoint discusses the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and its flaws, including how they might be remedied by severing CMS dependence on Relative Value Update Committee estimates of time and intensity.
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Aged
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Ethics, Medical
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Fee Schedules* / economics
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Fee Schedules* / ethics
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Humans
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Medicare / economics
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Medicare / ethics
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Medicare Part B* / economics
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Medicare Part B* / ethics
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Physicians* / economics
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Physicians* / ethics
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Relative Value Scales*
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United States