On the other hand, Medicare fee-for-service programs to allow beneficiaries to compare quality among hospitals and providers appear to be, at least to us, outdated.
One of the things they do for us is, about every other year they come up with something called a high-risk list.
So we may want to think about realigning the incentives just a little bit.
One of the things I heard from a couple of you today--I think we have heard from a couple of you today--is that there is...
we want to make sure that the improper payments that are being paid continue to be reduced.
we need to help figure out how we could, each of us, do our jobs a little bit better.
I understand that a change in law is needed to allow some of the Medicare recovery to be used for this sort of outreach.
I do not know if anybody else on the panel would be interested in doing this, but what about the idea of convening a tel...
Somebody needs to put on the hat of the taxpayers, because they have a stake in this as well.
We have to figure out how to save some money in this program.
The government cannot just do it all. We have to be a partner, but they have to be a partner as well.