Taking aim at P4P

January 31, 2008

Dr. Wes: “But perhaps a better word for this incentive program is not a reward, but a bribe to do more testing and mindless documentation. Worse, maybe this money is really a kickback scheme to reward the large hospital-owned primary care physician groups (with whom they have contracts); the same groups who already have electronic medical records and teams of gnomes who can sift through these electronically-identifiable ‘quality’ measures.”



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