Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
Medicare Should Put High-Cost Doctors Under Lens, GAO Says
Published on Wed Apr 04, 2007 
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Doctors with the highest number of expensive patients were also the ones most likely to practice medicine inefficiently, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report (GAO-07-307). Medicare should single out these big-spending doctors for education or audits, the GAO urged.
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