tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 14

Physician Notes: McClellan Is To Docs As Scully Was To Hospitals

What the new CMS chief's background means for youIn one of his first public presentations as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator, Mark McClellan offered a two-sided message to the American Medical Association's annual national advocacy conference in Washington March 30.  His theme: We'll play ball with you on regulatory matters, physicians, if you exert your influence to help hold down health-care spending. The "or else" implicit in McClellan's remarks: If you don't help develop a more cost-effective care system, it may be your reimbursement that suffers in the end. Like his predecessor Tom Scully -...

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