Friday, November 18, 2011

Does PPACA disincentivize comprehensive primary care?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22086805

J Am Board Fam Med. 2011 Nov;24(6):637-638.
Rewarding Family Medicine While Penalizing Comprehensiveness? Primary Care Payment Incentives and Health Reform: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
Petterson S, Bazemore AW, Phillips RL, Xierali IM, Rinaldo J, Green LA, Puffer JC.
Source
The Robert Graham Center.

Abstract
Family physicians' scope of work is exceptionally broad, particularly with increasing rurality. Provisions for Medicare bonus payment specified in the health care reform bill (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) used a narrow definition of primary care that inadvertently offers family physicians disincentives to delivering comprehensive primary care.

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