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Doctors Should Be Rewarded for Quality Care, Not for Cutting Corners
Jeffrey Binder in Health Affairs Link to more items from this source
[Opinion]
July 21, 2013

"The incentives to cut costs are strong, but the individual quality measures chosen by CMS to assess quality in the new programs are limited in scope, and that can adversely affect patient care. These measures are focused on processes of care, rather than clinical outcomes, and do not measure quality for most complex diseases and conditions, including major heart procedures, neurological conditions, orthopedic procedures, or cancer treatments. Policymakers need to fix this problem without undermining the goals of the new systems."  MORE >>

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