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Fixing Medical Prices

How Physicians Are Paid

Miriam J. Laugesen

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$36.00 • £28.95 • €32.50

ISBN 9780674545168

Publication Date: 11/21/2016

288 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

1 halftone, 12 tables

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Miriam J. Laugesen is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

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Read a July 2018 Center for American Progress report on reforming the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) that draws heavily on Fixing Medical Prices
Listen to Miriam Laugesen discuss the cost of U.S. healthcare with WNYC’s Leonard Lopate
At Business Insider, read Laugesen’s thoughts on the “financial toxicity of cancer”
Watch Laugesen discuss “how to open the black box of doctors’ fees“ on NY1 (New York, NY)’s City Health Beat [at 06:15]
At the Huffington Post, read Laugesen’s advice for Americans seeking guidance about their healthcare given the specter of major changes to the Affordable Care Act, Medicare/Medicaid, and other major health policy during 2017 and beyond

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