Summary: Hear from Julie Baker, director, healthcare advisory practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers, on what is driving the move toward pay-for-performance programs, history on some of the programs in place now and what this means for physician practices evaluating the new voluntary physician quality reporting program launched by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Baker's remarks are excerpted from a 90-minute audio conference now available on CD-ROM during which Baker and Robert Fortini, clinical operations manager, Community Care Physicians, examine the new call for voluntary reporting of quality measures by physician practices to CMS.
