On May 14, 2013, during a Senate Finance Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) emphasized the importance of her Medicare Value Payment Modifier to efforts to reform the current Medicare fee-for-service payment system and improve the health care delivery system. Currently, the fee-for-service system often rewards practitioners for ordering redundant or unnecessary tests and procedures.
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