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| "Multiple quality measures are currently used to evaluate healthcare performance, which may be different across payers or settings. CMS and AHIP are committed to a collaborative effort to improve alignment and consensus around the most important, meaningful quality measures and to ensure that these are deployed across many settings in a unified approach. This will not only help patients better understand and evaluate their own healthcare, but will also reduce the burden and redundancy for clinicians and healthcare organizations. | ||
| -Kate Goodrich, Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality and CMS Chief Medical Officer |
| Hospital systems
are increasingly acquiring primary care practices. In 2010,
41.6% of primary-care doctors worked in an independent practice;
27.7% worked in a hospital or healthcare system; and 30.7%
worked in a medical group. In 2016, 43.5% worked in a hospital
or healthcare system; 35.3% in an independent practice; and
21.2% in a medical group. Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, December 2018 |
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Reducing the Cost of Health Care with Scott W. Atlas:
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