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19 hours ago ago from Medicare News Blog - A news blog on all things Medicare.

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RSS Feeds » Sitewide | Earth | Heavens | Body | Brain | Culture | Technology Home Earth Heavens Body Brain Culture Tech Most primary-care physician practices appear too small to adequately measure quality Posted On: December 8, 2009 - 9:30pm Most primary care physicians active in the Medicare program work in practices ...

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16 hours ago ago from Medical News Hour

Most primary care physicians active in the Medicare program work in practices with too few patients to reliably measure significant differences in common measures of quality and cost performance, according to a study in the December 9 issue of JAMA. There has been ample evidence that despite high and rising costs of health care in the U.S., quality is lagging, according to background information in the article See original here: ...

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