Health Care Tries Paying Doctors Based On Quality
Physicians and hospitals will likely soon be paid by insurers based on the quality of care they provide, rather than a flat negotiated fee.Pay-for-performance programs that require doctors and hospitals to meet pre-determined quality levels for various procedures in order to get maximum payment are the new front in the battle to contain rising health care costs.
Health care providers are greeting the idea with tempered optimism as the idea is introduced in the Milwaukee market.
Dr. Jim Ketterhagen, president of the Medical Society of Milwaukee County, supports the concept of pay-for-performance, but questions how quality measures are set up and which standards are used.
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posted by Mike @ 10:30 AM
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It's interesting to hear health care tries to pay based on quality. I always thought all doctors worked the same.
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