Daily Sentinel: Incentive missing for health care reform, Marillac director says
By GARY HARMON/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Paying physicians to treat illness and not to help patients remain healthy is a significant factor in rising costs of health care, the head of the Marillac Clinic told a Club 20 audience Saturday.
That system “is a disincentive for health care reform,” Marillac Executive Director Steve Hurd said. “Keeping someone healthy is not a procedure that is reimbursable” under the system by which physicians are compensated for the care they provide.
