The costly Medicare boondoggle that’s wasting tax dollars and infuriating doctors
In the last decade, the federal government has undertaken considerable steps to control the way doctors care for their patients. Its goal is to improve healthcare quality and lower costs, but the very regulation tasked with achieving this has created a paperwork nightmare that actually does the opposite: it impedes care and increases costs.
I’m referring to the Physician Quality Reporting System, or PQRS, which originated with the Tax Relief and …