Federal Investigators Fault Medicare’s Reliance on Doctors for Pay Standards

Federal Investigators Fault Medicare’s Reliance on Doctors for Pay Standards-newyorktimes: The government relies too heavily on advice from the American Medical Association in deciding how much to pay doctors under Medicare, and the decisions may be biased because the doctors have potential conflicts of interest, federal investigators say in a new report. This reliance on the association, combined with flaws in data collected by the influential doctors’ group, “could result in inaccurate Medicare payment rates,” the investigators said.