tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 25

Pay for Performance: P4P May Lead To A Transfer From Some Specialties To Others

Neurosurgeons may lend themselves more to quality guidelinesPay for performance may well be inevitable in 2007 and 2008 - but will it save Medicare any money?Experts say it's hard to predict, . And it doesn't help that we can't agree on a definition of quality, let alone whether quality leads to lower costs, notes attorney Rebecca Burke with Powers, Pyles Sutter & Verville in Washington. The easiest parts of quality to define, such as information technology, may be the ones that lead to the least savings. Some physician groups fear that P4P will mean a net transfer of funds...

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