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To the Editor: Hsiao et al. (April 1 issue) assess the implementation of physician-payment reform and conclude that the "misallocation of practice expenses in the Medicare fee schedule results in serious underpayment for medical services"¹. As a general internist practicing primary care internal medicine, I have two specific concerns about their data.

Table 2 of the article suggests that overhead for internal medicine should be approximately $129,800 a year on the average, and Table 5 that the estimated actual (nonphysician) practice costs should be approximately $139,000 a year. My office practice costs and overhead are closer to $190,000 to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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