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Grading a Physician's Value — The Misapplication of Performance Measurement

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  • Robert A. Berenson, M.D.,
  • and Deborah R. Kaye, M.D.

By 2017, the value-based payment modifier will be used to reward or penalize all Medicare physicians on the basis of the relative calculated value of the care they provide. But a physician's overall value cannot be assessed with current or foreseeable measures.

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This article was published on November 6, 2013, at NEJM.org.

Author Affiliations

From the Urban Institute, Washington, DC (R.A.B.); and the Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore (D.R.K.).

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