With the escalation of health care costs no longer considered sustainable by a wide array of experts, including the greatly respected Institute of Medicine, there has been a growing call for a more sound health care reimbursement system, which “aligns payment policies with quality improvement.” The goal is to make every health care dollar count to ensure each patient receives the highest quality of care possible.
This major shift to performance-based reimbursement is known as pay for performance (P4P). The ACR has made a deep commitment to P4P, to ensure we are at the vanguard of this rapidly growing movement, and that our P4P initiatives have the full input and support of our members.
With 130 public and private P4P programs already in existence, including Medicare’s new bonus payments for reporting quality measures, the ACR believes P4P represents a golden opportunity for radiologists to receive the full recognition—and long overdue value added compensation—for the superior services they provide.
We hope you will support the College’s P4P activities and avail yourself of the opportunity to learn more about P4P and the ACR’s related activities by visiting the links below. This includes information on the 2008 CMS Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), and how to obtain the 2 percent reporting bonus for quality measures related to diagnostic and interventional radiology, and radiation oncology.
Please feel free to direct any questions you may have to: P4Pquestions@acr.org.
Please see links below for more information.