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Plans and Strategies Impacting Your Patients and Your Practice. This is our 4th installment of ‘P4N.’

Publication Date: Jan 12, 2007.

Disclaimer: The reports in Clinical Neurology News take a neutral position on Medicare issues. Dr. William Campbell Douglass III MD, MS makes this Report about Medicare more personal: Is the recently legislated Medicare ‘Pay-for-Performance’ (P4P) program all about creating ‘quality health care’ for America’s seniors? Or is it a masked attempt to try to fix, to save, the government-based healthcare plan? If so, is the attempted fix being done at your - and other U.S. doctor’s - expense? If so, how? Could the hoped-for solution be all about the ‘missing variable’ in the quality-cost equation: time - your time? Could you become the ’sacrificial lamb’ - the scapegoat - if the P4P experiment fails?

Also, what percent of doctors may feel that Medicare Part D is too complicated, increases their day-to-day hassles, and puts a burden on themselves or their staff? And ‘Experts Call for FDA Reform’: Vioxx-FDA whistle-blower Dr. David Graham in the spotlight again. Last But Not Least: Got the ‘Neurology Recertification Blues’? Dr. John Whyte from Discovery Health Channel may have a remedy for you!

Show website reference: www.abpn.com.