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Tennessee insurer to post quality, price info
Quality Improvement Monitor, February 8, 2008
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee will soon allow consumers to compare doctors on quality of care and costs, according to the Tennessean.
The insurer, the state's largest, will start posting the data for its customers beginning in April, the paper said. But one doctor who served on the BlueCross advisory panel on the topic said physicians who treat sicker patients could be at a disadvantage because their costs would be higher.
"If you publish that data, you run the risk that those doctors could become averse to taking on those risky patients because it makes them look bad," William Edwards, MD, a vascular surgeon with The Surgical Clinic PLLC in Nashville, told the Tennessean.For more information, click here.
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