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Monday, March 06, 2006

Required reading" Aggravated Docsurg's post onThe AMA,Pay for peformance (P4P)

I have written about P4P before and am more concerned than ever about it in light of AMA recent apparent support of it.

Aggravated Docsurg has an excellent post of this topic replete with great links to well written and thoughtful essays pointing out what a bad idea P4P is. I can add nothing to his comments and those he references. The P4P may well work out to be even worse than managed care if that is even possible.

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