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New research seems to offer evidence that physicians avoid riskier procedures when data on their performance is made public. A study released today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that cardiologists in Michigan, a state with no reporting law, are far more likely to perform angioplasties on high-risk patients than their counterparts in New York, a state where reporting has been required for a decade. The mortality rate in Michigan was approximately twice …