The new federal pay-for-performance pilot program may prove to be short-lived.On December 20, 2006, President Bush signed into law the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 (TRHCA). A broad tax reform omnibus that also included a number of key health care measures, the bill authorized the establishment of a pay-for-performance program known as the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). 
According to the website of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, PQRI establishes a financial incentive of up to 1.5% of the total allowed charges for covered Medicare physician fee schedule services for eligible professionals whose performance meets a designated set of quality measures.
Pay for Performance, or Performance for Pay?
January 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Where Does All the Healthcare Money Go?
January 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Why is the cost of healthcare going up when doctors’ reimbursement keeps going down?If doctors are getting paid less and less by managed care insurance companies, why is the cost of healthcare rising exponentially in the country? Just look at the stock returns of these same insurance companies. And while physicians on average have seen about a 95% decrease in reimbursement in the last ten years, compare this to the compensation of the CEOs of these companies: $358 million for one CEO of a health insurance company.
If you add the total compensation of the top ten insurance company CEOs, this equals 1/900 of the total healthcare expenditure of the United States. In other words, 1/900 of all the money spent on healthcare in the US goes to ten people.
Industry Group Hopes to Benefit from Getting Doctors Wired
August 9, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Membership growth tied to new tools provided to medical professionals
The International Association of Dental and Medical Disciplines (IADMD) is a grass-roots organization whose main focus is to push for industry and legislative changes in the health care system, while at the same time bringing its membership up to date on technology. One initiative is to provide doctors participating in local community health services the tools to track and account for the free services they provide. A recent article in Information Week explains how the IADMD hopes to benefit in several ways from technology awareness; among them increased membership and a larger group to support its lobbying efforts.
