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a senior fellow at the University of Southern California Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and former commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.according to estimates from the Association of American Medical Colleges.the system that Medicare and other healBK8th plans use to pay doctors generally places more value on doing procedures like replacing a knee or inserting a stent than on delivering the whole-person.

Payment imbalances a source of tensionIn recent years.which covers 65 million people who are 65 and older or who have certain long-term disabilities.

a zero-sum arrangement in which payment increases for primary care providers mean payment decreases elsewhere.

theres general agreement that strengthening the primary care system through payment reform wont be accomplished by tinkering with billing codes.identified as Warwick Tollemache.

the Coast Guard has made the difficult decision to suspend the active search for the passenger aboard the Quantum of the Seas.CBS News has reached out to Australian officials for comment.

a cruise passenger died after falling from the MSC Meraviglia.Coast Guard suspended its search on Thursday for a Royal Caribbean cruise ship passenger who went overboard.