Year: 2014
Resolution Number: 21
Action Taken: Approved
Status:
Author(s): P. Dileep Kumar, MD
Sponsor: P. Dileep Kumar, MD
On behalf of:
Committee: Reaffirmation Calendar
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That the AMA immediately study Medicare’s roll-out of the “value modifier” or “value-based payment modifier” program to all physicians by 2017 including the impact of rewards and penalties based on flawed quality measures and the failed Physician Quality Reporting System program and advocate for the abolition of this approach until solid performance indicators are tried, tested and widely accepted; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That the AMA educate physicians about the ramifications of Medicare’s “value modifier” or “value-based payment modifier” program which could be another Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) in the making, in light of the New England Journal of Medicine comment that “the medical profession has been remarkably quiet as this flawed approach proceeds.”
RESOLVED: That the AMA immediately study Medicare’s roll-out of the “value modifier” or “value-based payment modifier” program to all physicians by 2017 including the impact of rewards and penalties based on flawed quality measures and the failed Physician Quality Reporting System program and advocate for the abolition of this approach until solid performance indicators are tried, tested and widely accepted; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That the AMA educate physicians about the ramifications of Medicare’s “value modifier” or “value-based payment modifier” program which could be another Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) in the making, in light of the New England Journal of Medicine comment that “the medical profession has been remarkably quiet as this flawed approach proceeds.”
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Oppose the “Value Modifier” or “Value-Based Payment Modifier”
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