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How quality ratings blew up in an insurer’s face

This is what you get when bureaucrats run health care – a laughable physician quality measure:

He found, for example, that he was faulted for poor treatment of two diabetes patients. The patients in question didn’t have diabetes, he said.

Another doctor got a bad rating for failing to order a mammogram for a patient who had already had a double mastectomy, said W. Hugh Maloney, WSMA’s president.

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