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Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

2018

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Countering Pay-For-Performance's Unintended Consequences By Rethinking The Physician's Duty To Disclose, Mariah Dick Jan 2018

Countering Pay-For-Performance's Unintended Consequences By Rethinking The Physician's Duty To Disclose, Mariah Dick

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

The article highlights the features of the U.S. Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) and identify those attributes that make it vulnerable to the same types of unintended behaviors that have plagued pay-for-performance models in other industries. Topics discussed include unintended consequences associated with pay-for-performance in non-health care industries; physician disclosure standards; and need of laws for patient-centered care and patient autonomy.