tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 1

Pay For Performance: Brace Yourself For Quality-Based Payments

But diverse specialties may doom programChances are strong that policymakers will try to push through pay-for-performance - and the result could mean you lose pay while some other physician puts on a show.The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) seems to be prepared to recommend a sweeping program to reward physician quality in its March 2005 report. The panel won't vote until next month, but the Commissioners agreed at their Dec. 9 meeting that it seems feasible to report quality data without burdening physicians too much. At least at first, pay for performance (P4P) data would come from extra...

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