"… have to deal with is how we pay physicians.” …"

"… e March, Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., introduced legislation targeting the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee, or RUC, a group o …"

"… the academy, said its board planned to discuss giving up membership in the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Update Committee, or RUC, a committee the …"

"… ent of Medicare-paid office visits, are a distinct minority on the RUC.The American Medical Association, which funds the RUC, said the committee does not discriminate against fam …"

"… in or lose based on how Medicare values the work they perform.Known as the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee, or RUC, the group …"

"… students studying primary care.In a 2010 commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. John Goodson, a primary care physician and associate professor at Har …"

"… for a wide release Medicare billing data, a move vigorously opposed by the American Medical Association.The Durbin bill, S-856, the Medicare Spending Transparency Act of 2011, di …"

"… uld have put the federal agency in violation of a court order.In 1978, the American Medical Association successfully sued the federal government to bar the predecessor of HHS fro …"

"… uld have put the federal agency in violation of a court order.In 1978, the American Medical Association successfully sued the federal government to bar the predecessor of HHS fro …"

"… ns if they break that agreement.Dr. J. James Rohack, past president of the American Medical Association, said in a  statement that “Releasing Medicare claims data to the p …"

"… rapped. But many powerful health industry lobbies, which would profit from expanded health insurance coverage, disagree.“Clearly we have hit a bump in the road, but we think it is no …"

"… lic can access statistical portions of the NPDB. Thanks to lobbying by the American Medical Association, however, the law blocks public users from pulling up histories of individ …"

"… sents family doctors, said the academy sent a letter late last week to the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Update Committee, or RUC, seeking four mo …"

"… ral laws, including the 2010 Affordable Health Care Act, in relying on the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Update Committee, or RUC, to value physic …"

"… ssary, out of fear of being sued.  Well, if Texans believed their own health insurance rates would go down once tort reform made defensive medicine less prevalen …"