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ArticleJAMA2024

Rebuilding the Relative Value Unit-Based Physician Payment System.

Laurence F McMahon, Zirui Song

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Article in JAMA, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. The Exceptional Nature of Health Care as an Economic Good.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Laurence F McMahonDivision of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Zirui SongDepartment of Health Care Policy, and Center for Primary Care, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Funding

Tradeoffs in the Design of Public Long-Term Care BenefitsP01AG032952 · NIA · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI John Michael McWilliams · 2009 to 2026
$39.0M
Private Equity Acquisitions in Primary Care: Effects on the Medicare ProgramR01HS029467 · AHRQ · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI Zirui Song, Jane Mingjia Zhu · 2023 to 2026
$1.6M
Evaluations of Increasing State Investments in Primary Care: Effects on Health Care Spending, Utilization, and QualityR01HS029497 · AHRQ · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI SONG, ZIRUI · 2024 to 2025
$600k
AHRQ HHS R01 HS029467AHRQ HHS R01 HS029497NIA NIH HHS P01 AG032952
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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MedicarePhysiciansReimbursement MechanismsRelative Value ScalesHumansUnited States

Identifiers

PMID38985495
PMCPMC11977100

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