tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 9

REIMBURSEMENT: AMA Defends Quality Improvement Deal With Congress

Association didn't give away the store on P4P, it insistsYour specialty associations reacted with anger when they heard the American Medical Association had signed a deal with Congress to come up with 140 standard measures of physician quality, covering 34 clinical areas. They voiced their objections in a Feb. 20 New York Times article. Why hadn't the specialty associations been consulted?, they asked. And more importantly, why did the AMA agree to setting the groundwork for a "pay for performance" (P4P) system without getting any assurances that Congress would pay doctors enough to make it worthwhile? The AMA has...

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