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MPEG: Run Time 2.06 min
BTE was featured
in this Fox News broadcast on May 16, 2005. In it you will
hear broadly about Bridges To Excellence and also see and
hear about two concerns with respect to any program that offers
financial incentives to physicians for delivering a higher
level of quality care. Here are these two objections and the
associated responses from BTE.
Concern #1: Physicians
should not be rewarded for what we should expect them to do
today.
BTE's
Response: Physicians around the country are delivering
the care that they are contracted for by health plans while
delivering average to slightly above-average care. BTE programs
are designed to encourage significant improvements in the
quality of care and require tremendous effort on the part
of physicians to re-engineer their practices. This effort
requires time and resources from the physicians in a practice
and needs to be encouraged in the same way that any other
industry encourages its participants that perform better.
Many countries around the world are engaged in similar efforts,
recognizing that paying the same to every physician does
not encourage them to perform better than their peers.
Concern
#2: Physicians will be encouraged to take care
of healthier patients and get rid of their sicker ones.
BTE's
Response: The Bridges To Excellence programs
give bonuses to doctors on a per patient basis. As such,
if a physician loses a patient, they also lose the bonus,
which means that they have a direct incentive to keep all
their patients and care for them. In the current markets
in which BTE is active, we have found that recognized physicians
are actually eager to see more patients for whom they can
get a bonus, not fewer.
Every incentive
program always has the potential for unintended consequences
and we have established strong reporting and control mechanisms
to flag issues and mitigate against them.
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Physician/Press Contacts
Physician |
Practice |
Market |
Recognition |
Contact
Information |
A.
O'Tayo Lalude, MD |
Caritas
Physician Group, Westside
|
Louisville |
DPRP |
|
Victor
Shpilberg, MD |
Pleasure
Ridge Primary Care |
Louisville |
DPRP |
Karen
Shpilberg-Office Manager
502-937-3154
|
Jeffrey
Lasker, MD |
Hyde
Park Pediatrics Partners HealthCare System |
Boston |
PPC |
Pediatrics
Office
617-361-1470 |
Thomas
Auer, MD |
Community
Care
Medical Director |
Capital
District |
PPC
in Process |
Pamela Tomaszewski- Admin
518-782-3754 |
Dr.
Mike Barber- President |
Group
Health Associates |
Cincinnati |
DPRP |
|
Paula
Lafranconi, MD |
Group
Health Associates |
Cincinnati |
DPRP |
|