QUALITY


Out in the open Medicare publishes quality data


Medicare’s Physician Compare has “a long way to go” to provide patients with meaningful quality information on physicians, says Tiffany Berry, MD.


“The last thing


we want to do is send out wrong


information about anybody.”


BY AMY LYNN SORREL When Temple family physician Tiffany Berry, MD, looked up her name in Medicare’s Physician Compare, she easily found her profile publicly displayed on the website meant to help patients search for information on Medicare physicians. Listed are her specialty and location, whether she takes Medicare pa- tients, and her participation in federal quality initiatives like the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS). However, to look up the new quality data Medicare recently published for her and other large groups, Dr. Berry had to search the name of her practice, Scott


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JIM LINCOLN


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