Medicare Physician Fee Schedule —Reply

In Reply Dr Resneck, Dr Blankenship and colleagues, and Dr Chiodo and colleagues incorrectly interpret our Viewpoint as an attack on physicians ’ integrity. We were noting that the AMA RUC review, at the heart of the MPFS, is inherently unethical because it necessarily rests on a conflict of interest that can influence physicians’ behavior and judgments—and that it may in fact induce some physicians to compromise their integrity by pr oducing distorted work descriptions and time estimates, as is the case for freezing warts and actinic keratoses or interpreting electrocardiograms.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research