Quit the RUC Mar 7. 2011 | Comments (0)
An Open Letter To Primary Care PhysiciansPaul M. Fischer and Brian KlepperThis letter was originally posted at "Replace the RUC," a site that provides much more detailed information about the RUC and its disastrous influence over American health care. We'd urge you to visit.If you agree with this letter, please redistribute, particularly to other primary care physicians.Friends:As many of you know, we have developed an effort to shine a bright light on the Relative Value Scale Update Committee, or RUC. A new site, Replace the RUC, provides a wealth of expert background information, and we’re working now to get more visibility on this issue.A specialist-dominated panel within the AMA, the RUC is little known and under-appreciated, but extremely powerful and opaque. More important, through its longstanding relationship with CMS, it is central to the explosion in health care costs over the past 20 years, why primary care physicians are paid so poorly compared to their...