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House seeks pay-for-performance guidance
Quality Improvement Monitor, July 1, 2005
Leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee asked CMS to outline the agency's plan for pay-for-performance initiatives and recommendations on the financial incentives necessary to ensure participation, according to the June 23 BNA Health Care Daily Report.
In a letter dated June 16 to CMS Administrator Mark McClellan, Ways and Means Chair Bill Thomas (R-CA) and health subcommittee chair Nancy Johnson (R-CT) asked Medicare to provide information on the development of quality indicators and the systems needed to report them.
Congressional leaders also wanted information about whether CMS agrees with a Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommendation to provide confidential information about peer comparisons to physicians.
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