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Part 7: Confronting Special Implementation Issues
Pages 91-95

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... PART VII Confronting Special Implementation Issues
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... These issues form a major part of the environment in which the Medicare quality assurance strategy that we have laid out in such detail must be implemented and played out. We considered each of the three areas, but unlike topics covered in the earlier presentations—we did not make specific recommendations that pertained directly to them.
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... So the problem that Medicare faces, indeed that all quality assurance programs face, is how to proceed in the absence of those kinds of data. Second, legal concerns form a major part of the environment.
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... Another repetitive theme the committee heard was that providers are excessively burdened by the multiple agencies involved in quality assurance independently demanding the same information in an uncoordinated fashion. So the final issue of this set of three special topics concerns how the Medicare strategy fits into what everybody else is doing.


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