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As the body of evidence-based medicine grows, healthcare
costs increase, and third parties pay for healthcare, we can expect more
public accountability
Coming soon:
- CMS will require participation in reporting or will
reduce payment to hospitals
- CMS will reward best performers with higher payment,
and reduce payment to lower performers
- Other payors will follow suit
- CMS will require public reporting for physicians
- Quality Alliance agrees on uniform measures of physician
performance
- A broad coalition of health care providers, government
agencies and insurers has agreed on 26 measures of physician performance
that should set the stage for quality improvement. Medicare chief
Mark McClellan called the measures, drawn up by the Ambulatory Care
Quality Alliance, a "milestone." The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (5/4)
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