Year: 2016
Resolution Number: 71
Action Taken: Approved as Amended
Status: Complete
Author(s): Jayne E. Courts, MD
Sponsor: Domenic Federico, MD
On behalf of: Kent County Delegation
Committee: A (Medical Care Delivery)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That the MSMS supports the American Medical Association (AMA) policy on Pain Medicine (D-450.958) as follows:Our AMA: (1) continues to advocate that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) remove the pain survey questions from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS); (2) continues to advocate that CMS not incorporate items linked to pain scores as part of the CAHPS Clinician and Group Surveys (CG-CAHPS) scores in future surveys; and (3) encourages hospitals, clinics, health plans, health systems, and academic medical centers not to link physician compensation, employment retention or promotion, faculty retention or promotion, and provider network participation to patient satisfaction scores relating to the evaluation and management of pain.
RESOLVED: That the MSMS supports the American Medical Association (AMA) policy on Pain Medicine (D-450.958) as follows:Our AMA: (1) continues to advocate that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) remove the pain survey questions from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS); (2) continues to advocate that CMS not incorporate items linked to pain scores as part of the CAHPS Clinician and Group Surveys (CG-CAHPS) scores in future surveys; and (3) encourages hospitals, clinics, health plans, health systems, and academic medical centers not to link physician compensation, employment retention or promotion, faculty retention or promotion, and provider network participation to patient satisfaction scores relating to the evaluation and management of pain.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Federally-required Patient Surveys
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