tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 8

Physicians: Will The Federal Government Offer States P4P For Medicaid?

New standards may already be underwayWho's next in the barrel for pay for performance? It might be states that seek more flexibility to design their Medicaid programs, according to comments made Feb. 2 by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Mark McClellan. In the same week that CMS announced the start of a P4P demonstration project involving large physician groups, McClellan suggested to reporters at a Washington policy conference that P4P could be a good way to revise Medicaid's structure to facilitate state flexibility. The idea seems to be that performance measures tied to reimbursement might replace aspects of...

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