Year: 2017
Resolution Number: 47
Action Taken: Approved
Status: Complete
Author(s): Jayne Courts, MD, and Martha L. Gray, MD
Sponsor: Domenic Federico, MD
On behalf of: Kent County Delegation
Committee: A (Medical Care Delivery)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS work with third-party payers and other physician performance review organizations in the state of Michigan to establish a new standard that physicians should be measured not on what patients decide to do for themselves but, rather, on the advice and guidance physicians provide for patients and how that advice is communicated and documented; and be it further RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) askour AMA to advocate with payers and other physician performance review organizations a new standard whereby performance incentives would be linked to the performance of the physician in providing and documenting appropriate advice on preventative care and self-care to patients and/or their parents and applicable incentives would be earned through delivery and documentation of appropriate advice that are considered equal to the performance incentive based on a clinical outcome; and be it further RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to work with any organization measuring physicians through incentive or performance programs to adopt standards that do not penalize physicians for the actions of patients who cannot or who will not comply with excellence in clinical recommendations.
RESOLVED: That MSMS work with third-party payers and other physician performance review organizations in the state of Michigan to establish a new standard that physicians should be measured not on what patients decide to do for themselves but, rather, on the advice and guidance physicians provide for patients and how that advice is communicated and documented; and be it further RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) askour AMA to advocate with payers and other physician performance review organizations a new standard whereby performance incentives would be linked to the performance of the physician in providing and documenting appropriate advice on preventative care and self-care to patients and/or their parents and applicable incentives would be earned through delivery and documentation of appropriate advice that are considered equal to the performance incentive based on a clinical outcome; and be it further RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to work with any organization measuring physicians through incentive or performance programs to adopt standards that do not penalize physicians for the actions of patients who cannot or who will not comply with excellence in clinical recommendations.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Pay-for-Performance Incentives
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