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A colleague who practiced Pediatrics recently lamented the fact that different insurance companies in your State already not repayment by any medical service is running. However, insurers give your practice a budget for each patient, and you can earn more to meet certain quality objectives.
“I’m all for quality,” he said, sighing. “I don’t think this quality.”

Soo-Jeong Kang and the New York TimesPauline w. Chen, M.D.One of the requirements of the quality of his insurer, “he said, is a challenge all sexually active girls of chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease.” But because the insurers graphic medical for each individual patient cannot read, determine whether a girl sexually active in any other way is: check if she takes birth control pills.

The problem is that many of my fellow patients the pills not for contraception, but for acne and menstrual pain.
‘ So masking for Chlamydia and let my quality? “asked. “Or the order of proof that the patient does not have to create and which will probably not covered by insurance?”

For the last two decades, doctors and hospitals are topic more and more intensive public scrutiny and control, payment of Dr. different standards of “pay for performance” resume, or issuing public reports comparing quality results. The logic behind these initiatives seems obvious, at least to whom ever brought home a school report card. As their counterparts in the school, these public reports and payment systems act as reference points, to inspire practitioners better and even compete against each other. And they can serve as a source of information, providing patients with the statistics that are needed to choose a doctor or hospital over the other.

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