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Medicare and Medicaid
Divided We Fail Supports Legislation to Empower Health Care Consumers
June 18th, 2007
The Divided We Fail group, made up of AARP, Business Roundtable and SEIU, today endorsed legislation that can help improve health care quality and efficiency, and help bring patients the performance data necessary to make educated decisions about their care. The bill, The Medicare Quality Enhancement Act, was introduced by Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and would provide Medicare enrollment, claims, and survey and assessment data to private organizations to develop reports that measure health care quality for public use. The reports could include physician-specific data that is essential for identifying high- quality and efficient practice...
Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2007-06-18)
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