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Maybe a new day for doctors' pay

 |  By HealthLeaders Media Staff  
   November 09, 2009

Robert H. Frank,an economist at Cornell University, examines how the healthcare reform proposals under consideration seek to reduce U.S. health costs. The spending gap stems largely from a conflict inherent in how American physicians are paid, he says. Under most American health plans, including Medicare and Medicaid, doctors are reimbursed according to how many tests and procedures they perform, Frank notes.

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