Last month, 24,000 individual practice physicians in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska were notified that they could get confidential reports on the quality and cost of treatment they provided to Medicare patients in 2010. As of the end of March, only 3,300 of them had bothered to check.
WHAT OTHERS SAY: Doctors must get on board with new quality care standards
Friday, April 20, 2012 | 2:30 p.m. CDT
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