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RFK Jr. weighs major changes to how Medicare pays docs

By The Washington Post  
   November 22, 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his advisers are considering an overhaul of Medicare's decades-old payment formula, a bid to shift the health system's incentives toward primary care and prevention, say four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations. The discussions are in their early stages, the people say, and have involved a plan to review the thousands of billing codes that determine how much physicians get paid for performing procedures and services.

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