Dear Patient: P4P is Here

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Dear Patient: P4P is Here

Dear Mr. and Ms. Patient,
I regret to inform you that I will be spending less time focusing on your heart problem because I have decided to focus on the heart and medical problems that Medicare deems important to assure I get paid. They call this initiative "Pay for Performance (P4P)."
You see they published a list of 74 criteria that will be measured to see if I give good care, so I will get paid appropriately. Fortunatelty for cardiologists, we only have to do four things:

Source: Dr. Wes: Dear Patient: P4P is Here