Interesting article...group members include all the major insurance carriers...but were they not the ones at the bottom of all of this with pushing contracts out that require physicians to see a large amount of patients to make ends meet and be able to pay their bills to keep the practice open?   The quote from the IBM executive sums it all up pretty well below...is it all about "patients per manhour"?  BD

Seeing low fees for family doctors as a weak link in the nation’s health care system, some big employers and health insurers are seeking new ways to pay doctors to reward high-quality medical care.

An influential medical standards group plans to present a new model today for helping employers and insurers to identify the best primary care doctors and to steer patients their way. Those doctors, in turn, would be paid for more services than are currently reimbursed under typical health plan payments for office visits.

“We are empowering doctors to once again have a doctor-patient relationship,” said Dr. Paul H. Grundy, I.B.M.’s director for Health Care Technology and Strategic Initiatives, who is marshaling support for the changes. “We don’t want to buy the kind of care we’re getting any more. We have turned doctors into little chipmunks on a wheel, pumping out patients every five minutes.”

A Model for Health Care That Pays for Quality - New York Times

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