Doctors defend practices after release of Medicare payment data
After the federal government released Medicare payment data on June 3, doctors defended and explained their practices. The data did not include information on whether the treatments worked or the disease levels of patients and did not factor in overhead costs that vary among physicians, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal:
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.