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To the Editor: Policies proposed by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) are threatening the process by which a primary care physician admits a Medicare patient with multiple illnesses to the hospital and uses knowledge of the patient's medical history and social situation to deal with the patient's current illness while coordinating suggestions made by consultants for specific problems. When the primary care physician receives advice from a cardiologist and neurologist for a patient with cardiac and neurologic disease and discusses the implications of the advice with the patient and his or her family, all three physicians bill Medicare for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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