Family physicians sue to shine light on RUC deliberations, claim specialists skew reimbursement against primary care

摘要

A rguing that specialists unfairly dominate a secretive committee of physicians that recommends reimbursement rates for Medicare procedures and services, a small group of Georgia physicians has sued the federal government to open up the process and make it more responsive to primary care. The legal complaint, filed by 6 family physicians from the Center for Primary Care in Evans, GA, centers on public access to deliberations by the 29-member Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC). Organized by the American Medical Association (AMA), the RUC has advised the US Department of Health and Human Services for more than 2 decades on pay rates for procedures covered by Medicare.