tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 10

PHYSICIAN NOTES: MedPAC Pushes Pay-For-Performance

But not unless providers receive recommended 2.7 percent pay boostAs expected, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's March report encourages Congress to boost physicians' payments by 2.7 percent next year, instead of the roughly 5 percent cut the current law calls for.MedPAC also urges a pay-for-performance (P4P) strategy, offering more money to providers who achieve quality and efficiency goals, and less to those who don't. An interest in quality of care has led to talk of "differentiating among providers," MedPAC Executive Director Mark Miller told reporters at a March 1 briefing.On those grounds, P4P for...

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