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CHICAGO -- Physicians need to help design the pay-for-performance programs now being initiated by Medicare and other payers or they may not like the results, Dr. Trent Haywood said at the annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.
"What it comes down to ... is there's a certain level of fear, a certain uneasiness" about the program among doctors, said Dr. Haywood, who is deputy chief clinical officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. "The thing is for clinicians to work with us and get on board. We don't want to design a program and not have clinician input."
Medicare currently has...
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