Turn About is Fair Play - Doctors Rate Insurers
For years, doctors have chafed at new ways insurers are rating them and tying
bonus payments to those ratings.
The Minnesota Star Tribune reports that the Minnesota Medical Association is fighting back by issuing pay for performance plan ratings. The Association also has issued a report regarding the unnecessarily heavy administrative burden created by multiple criteria sets used by various health plans.
In their most confrontational move yet, the association turned the tables on insurers by ranking nine of the so-called pay-for-performance programs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ranked at the top while Bridges to Excellence, a program used by large, self-insured employers, was at the bottom. Programs by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, UCare, PreferredOne, HealthPartners and Medica fell somewhere in between.
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