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Ron Wyden: “The stakes here are enormously high, because what you are talking about is striking the right balance between…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2016
The stakes here are enormously high, because what you are talking about is striking the right balance between encouraging these alternative payment models, which are so important in care coordination, and at the same time maintaining protections against the financial incentives for providing large volumes of unnecessary care, which is what Stark was all about.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden emphasizes the importance of balancing innovation in payment models with patient protection.

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