Posted on 01/26/2015 9:14:39 PM PST by Nachum
The Obama administration on Monday announced an ambitious goal to overhaul the way doctors are paid, tying their fees more closely to the quality of care rather than the quantity.
Rather than pay more money to Medicare doctors simply for every procedure they perform, the government will also evaluate whether patients are healthier, among other measures. The goal is for half of all Medicare payments to be handled this way by 2018.
Monday’s announcement marks the administration’s biggest effort yet to shape how doctors are compensated across the health-care system. As the country's largest payer of health-care services, Medicare influences medical care generally, meaning the changes being initiated by the administration will likely be felt in doctor's offices and hospitals across the country.
“As a very large payer in the system, we believe we have a responsibility to lead," said Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell in a press conference. "For the first time, we’re going to set clear goals and establish a clear timeline for moving from volume to value in the Medicare system.”
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Too bad.
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Lovely.
Everything that the Obama Admin does usually turns out so well, doesn’t it?
The government has done a fine job of handling quality of school lunches so why not hand them doctors
Why don’t they ever try to change the way slip and fall lawyers get paid?
Whatever changes are made, Doctors can count on making less money in the future.
At some point, when the suffering reaches these high level democrats there is going to be a paradigm shift.
The quality of care goes down more and more as more and more of Obamacare is implemented and Obama wants to penalize Doctors. What a commie sonofabitch.
It’s already a screw job on the honest doctors, and the incredible games medicare plays starting with “are you too small to afford invest in electronic records in your practice that will cost you a percentage of your allowed fee on a sliding up scale each year” and then there are the games they play with “lost” paperwork and dropped calls. Lord Foul is doing his best to drive as many providers out of medicine as possible.
Ain’t Marxist fascism grand.
Many doctors will simply stop seeing patients with Medicare.
Ha...Common Core for Doctors......next up the “Liverpool Pathway imported from the UK NHS.
Earlier today on FR...Hospitals Giving ‘Death Test’ to Seniors
Obama will,pay the docs a lot more if they give lots of failing grades on the “Death Tests.”
less docs will see these people. this is just stupid
impeach the communist,muslim bastard now!
One of the biggest obstacles to successful patient health treatment is patient compliance. So if I treat such a patient, I’m penalized because of failure on the patient’s part?? Who determines treatment ‘quality’?? What is a successful treatment outcome and again, who determines what that criteria is??
I toldja 0bamaCare was going to make slaves out of doctors.
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