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Physician Performance: Report Cards Under Development but Challenges Remain

HEHS-99-178 Published: Sep 30, 1999. Publicly Released: Nov 01, 1999.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed efforts to provide the public with information on physician performance, focusing on: (1) the issues involved in measuring and reporting on physician and physician group performance; (2) efforts to develop physician report cards; and (3) initiatives under way that may address impediments to measuring physician and physician group performance.

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