tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 43

PHYSICIAN NOTES: Battle Of Wills Over Your Pay Cut Goes Down To Wire

Pay for performance is main bargaining chipWith time running out to save you from punishing cuts next year and in 2007, congressional leaders are playing chicken with physician organizations. The American Medical Association insisted in a Dec. 5 letter to the Administration and Congress that it won't accept any pay for performance (P4P) programs unless physicians are spared from pay cuts. But House Ways and Means Committee Chair Bill Thomas (R-CA) blasted back that Congress might not reverse the 4.4-percent cut unless the AMA first agreed to accept Medicare P4P."You don't say, 'Pay me first and then...

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