tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 14

MEDICARE: For AMA, McClellan Puts Some Pills In Sugar

CMS administrator hopes docs come around on P4P.Speaking to the American Medical Association's annual advocacy conference March 15, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mark McClellan repeatedly assured the docs that CMS values them and their input and won't take major regulatory steps without soliciting physicians' views. But McClellan also brought some tougher messages that he hopes physicians will swallow as Washington seeks to nudge Medicare toward consistently higher-quality, more cost-efficient care. Pay for performance, technology coverage that requires post-market clinical reporting by providers to ascertain precise risks and benefits, electronic health records and computerized prescribing, and...

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