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Healthcare Costs
Experts propose restructuring payment policies to support patient-centered care
February 12th, 2007
A policy paper with proposals to restructure conventional American health care fee-for-service payment policies was released by The American College of Physicians (ACP) at its annual report on "The State of the Nation's Health Care." "A System in Need of Change: Restructuring Payment Policies to Support Patient-Centered Care" offers a series of nine recommendations to address inadequacies in the current Medicare physician payment and delivery system. The combined recommendations would constitute some of the biggest changes in Medicare payment policies since the program was enacted in 1965. "The guiding philosophy of these recommendations is that...
Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2007-02-12)
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