Neurosurgery to Washington Monthly: Who’s REALLY Getting a “Special Deal?”

In the recently published July/August edition of Washington Monthly an article by Haley Sweetland Edwards entitled, “Special Deal” is completely outrageous in its attempt to paint specialists as a “shadowy cartel of doctors that control Medicare.” Ms. Edwards’ efforts to vilify the AMA/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) are misleading, inaccurate, and misguided.  […]