Good point here, does the list show quality or cost? BD
In a sharply worded letter, the New York State attorney general’s office asked a health insurance company yesterday to halt its planned introduction of a method for ranking doctors by quality of care and cost of service, warning of legal action if it did not comply.
The letter was addressed to Thomas J. McGuire, a senior lawyer in Hartford for UnitedHealthcare, a unit of UnitedHealth Group in Minneapolis.
Ms. Lacewell said patients might be steered toward doctors based on flawed data and UnitedHealthcare’s “profit motive.” She wrote, “Consumers may be encouraged to choose doctors because they are cheap rather than because they are good.”
He added: “It was dishonest. They were telling people that it was a quality metrics program when they were really just measuring cost.”
And, he said, his criticism was not just sour grapes. “I had a star next to my name; I was preferred,” he said. “But it didn’t mean anything.”
N.Y. Attorney General Objects to Insurer’s Ranking of Doctors by Cost and Quality - New York Times
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