Lori Meyerhoffer-NC

Document ID: CMS-2011-0122-0005
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services
Received Date: June 15 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: June 20 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: June 8 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: August 8 2011, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80e50bf5
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Medicare Program: Availability of Medicare Data for Performance Measurement

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It is difficult to guage quality of care via surveys and sampling of "data." I have known some outstanding physicians that have poor patient skills or are poor documenters and therefore who have poor "scores." Data collection cannot guage the competency of physicians. This rating system essentially compiles "data" that is meaningless and provides it to patients who have no idea how to actually use the data (because there is actually no real use for data of this type). CMS has to develop a system to accurately guage the competency of physicians (probably impossible to do actually) and then, and only then, can it be released to the public. This is a terrible rule that will do nothing but misguide patients based on "data" that is unrelated to the competency of their physician. This should be abandoned.