An Inside Look at Health Care for the Elderly and Medicare

Quality indicators are becoming progressively more accepted among health care reformers, who believe that the quality of a physician’s care can be measured with easily defined metrics. The folly of that presumption is tackled in my book and in this blog. Now we are learning about another dark side of quality measures: they are very costly. A recent survey published in Health Affairs (March, 2016) demonstrats the financial burden that quality measurements impose on physicia