Physician Groups Earn Performance Payments for Improving Quality of Care for Medicare Patients With Chronic Illnesses

OPEN MINDS On-Line News Strategic Health Care News The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said all 10 physician groups participating in the Physician Group Practice (PGP) Demonstration improved quality of care and as a result earned incentive payments of $16.7 million during the second performance year. On August 14, 2008, CMS announced that during year two, April 1, 2006 through March 31, 2007, of the four-year PGP demonstration all the participating physician groups achieved benchmark or target performance on at least 25 out of 27 quality markers for patients with diabetes, coronary artery disease, and . . .