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Income gap between primary care, specialties threatens healthcare
Physician Practice Advisor, February 28, 2007
- The volume of diagnostic and imaging procedures has increased far more rapidly than the volume of office visits, benefitting specialists who perform those procedures
- The Relative Value Scale Update Committee, which updates fees every five years, is composed mainly of specialists
- Medicare's formula for controlling physician payments penalizes PCPs
- Private insurers tend to pay for procedures, but not for office visits, at higher levels than those paid by Medicare
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