AMA Issues Special Report on Pay for Performance to Member Physicians, USA
“According to the report, the pay-for-performance trend is a ‘tsunami building offshore in a sea of stakeholder unrest, threatening those who are not prepared.’ Medicare this year for the first time established pay-for-performance requirements for hospitals, and ‘physicians believe they are going to be the next target for Medicare’s pay for performance initiatives,’ the Tribune reports.”
Another inevitable trend. One must be careful to ensure these performance measures don’t discourage physicians from taking on the sickest patients.
