date:Sep 18, 2021
sed to evaluate and pay hospitals and physicians in Medicare. Health systems or providers would be held accountable for screening patients for food and nutritional needs and then addressing them.
Gary Price, a Connecticut surgeon who is president of The Physicians Foundation, which formally submitted the proposed metric, noted that existing quality programs can penalize doctors financially if their patients do poorly under some rubrics. But doctors dont have a lot of control, for instance, whe