Linking compensation to quality - medicare payments to physicians

Article Abstract:

Congress is considering a legislation to eliminate a scheduled reduction of 4.3 percent in Medicare fee-for-service payment to physicians, but the reversal might be combined with policies linking payments to new efforts to improve the quality of care. The main challenge will be, getting the medical profession on the specific quality measures to be used, and eliminating the scheduled reduction in payments to physicians without adding unduly to the program's rapid growth in spending.

United States, Personnel administration, Management, Compensation and benefits, Medical care, Medical care quality, United States. Congress, Company business management, Medicare

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Doctors and interrogators at Guantanamo Bay

Article Abstract:

Evidences indicated that military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay have used aggressive counter-resistance measures in systematic fashion to pressure detainees to cooperate. These measures included sleep deprivation, prolonged isolation, painful body positions, feigned suffocation, beatings and other stress-inducing tactics including sexual provocation and displays of contempt for Islamic symbols.

Cuba, Practice, Military aspects, Prisoner abuse, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba

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