Good riddance!
I’m so happy to see this flawed performance measure dropped. I think I’ll take a 5 minute break to write a blog post, then another 5 minute break to stare out the window and marvel that a measure with such toxic unintended consequences was actually abandoned!h/t to Edward Goodman, via a post on the EIN this morning.
...and 5 minutes to wonder why we have to wait until 2012 to actually retire this toxicity. This is the equivalent to waiting until 2012 to stop eating cantaloupe!
ReplyDeleteI was in the ER last night to see a patient and one of the attendings told me that a large emergency medicine group in Virginia was fining its physicians $500 each time they didn't meet the 6 hour rule. I wonder if they'll get their money back. And I wonder how much this incredibly stupid rule cost the US healthcare system when all is said and done.
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