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Lisa Pickoff-White

California Doctors Among Those Charging Medicare The Most For Office Visits

By Lisa Pickoff-White and Lisa Aliferis and April Dembosky May 21, 2014 KHN Original

Billing data show that some doctors charge the government much more than their peers in the same specialty by deeming almost all office visits “complex.”

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