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1/ Kudos to @CMSGov for following through on intentions to increase relative pay for "the kind of care where clinicians need to spend more face-to-face time with patients, like primary care and complex or chronic disease management."

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2/ When the "relative value units" for every billable procedure in healthcare is set, new technology/ procedures tend to get high assessments of complexity and effort.

When, over time, specialists get really good (and quick) at them, these "RVUs" are rarely revised downwards
3/ this is part of the reason why there is such a big disparity in pay in the US between doctors who mostly talk to patients, and those who mostly perform procedures.

Also related, why we have a primary care shortage.

(Credit Medscape)
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