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More than 80 Percent of Medical Specialists Responding to a Poll Say Physician Quality Measure Law Must Be Fixed To Improve Patient Care
Patients Could be Harmed if Process is Rushed
7/10/2007
Nearly 2,000 of the nation’s medical specialists expressed concerns about a 2006 law that rushes the process of reporting on quality measures and urged policymakers to allow time to complete a testing phase before expanding or making the Medicare program permanent.
Saying that evaluation of the measures is critical to the success of the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), physicians from the Alliance of Specialty Medicine are on Capitol Hill this week advocating for the Voluntary Medicare Quality Reporting Act (H.R. 2749 and S. 1519), introduced by Reps. Gordon and Shadegg and Sens. Cardin and Specter, which addresses many of the physicians’ concerns....
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