The government tries to adjust its payments based on the perceived patient risk, but the insurance industry has figured out a way to game that system and extract even more profit by focusing on the least costly patients for a given medical condition, one recent academic study found.

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Spector, a reconstructive surgeon, is focusing on children born without a fully developed external ear, a condition called microtia.

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