AMA Committee Overvalues Procedures, Skews Medicare Reimbursement Rates, Post Investigation Finds
An American Medical Association committee that determines the value of physician services often overvalues the procedures, which skews Medicare and private insurers' payment rates, according to a Washington Post investigation. The panel meets in private annually to assign values to the majority of procedures, based in part on the time and intensity of each procedure.
- "How a Secretive Panel Uses Data That Distort Doctors' Pay" (Whoriskey/Keating, Washington Post, 7/20).