Care Patterns in Medicare and Their Implications for Pay for Performance
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- 15 March 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 356 (11) , 1130-1139
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa063979
Abstract
Two assumptions underpin the implementation of pay for performance in Medicare: that with the use of claims data, patients can be assigned to a physician or to a practice that will have primary responsibility for their care, and that a meaningful fraction of the care physicians deliver is for patients for whom they have primary responsibility.Keywords
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