tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 30

Pay for Performance: You Don't Have To Sacrifice Quality Care To Save Money

CMS's first P4P project payed off in a big way Better treatment needn't necessarily come at a steeper price. This seems to be the hopeful find from a report by the University of Michigan's Faculty Group Practice. The report, based on the facility's participation in the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration is Medicare's first Pay for Performance Demonstration Project to work directly with physician groups.The short of it: Older patients with heart disease and diabetes are getting better treatment than ever at the U-M Health System -- even while U-M's care for Medicare patients is costing less, the...

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