NY’s Attorney General sends a sharply-worded letter:
It asked the company to cancel its plan to release the rankings in September, citing a furor over a similar program’s introduction in Missouri in 2005. There, physician groups, including the American Medical Association, said the cost rankings primarily reflected the cost of care to the insurer “” not to patients.
(via Dr. Wes)
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Yet another failure of the US healthcare system.
Oh no, a sharply worded letter. What next, a penetrating glare?
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