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Potential sources and notability

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Reliable sources for the eventual page: NY Times description NEJM Kaiser Health News student doctor network NY Times Wall Street Journal Slate

The widespread nature of coverage in various RS should establish notability. The AMA's own description of its committee can be found here and is probably going to be fairly noncontroversial as to the basics (membership, date it was started, etc). The committee is somewhat controversial and there is a movement to do away with it. TMLutas (talk) 03:57, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

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Here's info that could be useful:

The RUC has 30 members (the chair only votes in case of a tie) with 23 of its members appointed by “national medical specialty societies.”17 Meetings are closed to outside observation except by invitation of the chair. Only 3 of the seats rotate on a 2-year basis. Other members have no term limits. Seventeen of the permanent seats on the RUC are assigned to a variety of AMA-recognized specialty societies including those that account for a very small portion of all professional Medicare billing, such as neurosurgery, plastic surgery, pathology, and otolaryngology. Proceedings are proprietary and therefore are not publicly available for review.

  • from Goodson JD (November 21, 2007). "Unintended consequences of resource-based relative value scale reimbursement" (PDF). JAMA. 298 (19): 2308–10. doi:10.1001/jama.298.19.2308. PMID 18029836.

Jesanj (talk) 02:28, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And from the WSJ source "Physician Panel Prescribes the Fees Paid by Medicare" there is info about it being

mostly specialists. They meet three times a year to modify some payment rates for physician services. In theory, RUC only decides how to divide, and does not increase, Medicare payments... influence the practice of medicine through the payment levels. Doctors are incentivized to do more of a service when it pays more...

Jesanj (talk) 02:31, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Related processes:
  • Physician Payment Review Commission;
    Health Care Financing Administration's Medicare Payment Refinement Panel process.
Jesanj (talk) 02:34, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]


Two new members

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Not sure where to add it but the RUC recently announced the addition of two seats. One more family practitioner, and a representative from the american geriatrics society. http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/02/13/gvsa0213.htm 72.131.57.173 (talk) 06:13, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]