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tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 5
PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE: Quality Is Still Its Own Reward Under Medicare
Pay-for-performance program is looking a lot less likelyOn Feb. 1, the U.S. House of Representatives finally passed a 2006 budget that replaced the scheduled 4.4-percent cut to your reimbursement with a pay freeze, meaning you'll continue to receive 2005 payment levels for another year.The final 2006 budget doesn't include any mention of pay for performance (P4P). Legislators had wanted to include programs where your reimbursement would be reduced by 1 percent, and that money would go into a pool. In the first year, you'd get money from that pool for answering quality questions, but after that...
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