A handful of Republican physician lawmakers sent a letter to the director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which raised concerns and posed questions about the proposed policy.
The lawmakers pointed out that patients do not have “medical knowledge to accurately determine when an adverse medical event occurs.”
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