tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 5

QUALITY OF CARE: Physicians Poised for More CMS Scrutiny

Physicians might already feel that they're being monitored more than enough, but the feds see things differently - and they're planning to focus their sights even more closely on doctors' offices. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has the wheels in motion to launch the "Doctors Office Quality" (DOQ) project, which aims, the agency says, to "define overall quality measures that assess and strategies that improve clinician performance in providing ambulatory care for persons with chronic disease." DOQ is a three-year project that CMS hopes will help physicians "examine how well they are providing chronic care to...

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