Stifling Primary Care: Why Does CMS Continue To Support The RUC?

By BRIAN KLEPPER, PAUL FISCHER, MD, & KATHLEEN ANNE BEHAN Last October, the Wall Street Journal ran a damning expose about the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), a secretive, specialist-dominated panel within the American Medical Association (AMA) that, for the past two decades, has been the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ [...]...