Collaborative effort aims to stress quality care over costs
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Health insurers and medical groups have agreed to work together to develop national standards for rating physician performance. Medical societies have long objected, saying rating the quality of care provided by individual doctors is unfair and misleading, however, the proliferation of divergent report cards and rating systems is generating support for more objective and transparent quality assessment.
Health insurers have been rolling out programs that award "stars" or identify "higher performance" providers. Physicians have complained that these are confusing and are joining the effort to steer measurement ...