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Physician Measurement

Our Stance

AAFP believes that transparency in health care costs and quality information to physicians, patients, and employers is important and supports such efforts, provided that the data aggregation and analysis is consistent with AAFP policy. Read the AAFP Guiding Principles on Physician Profiling.

AAFP Advocacy Activities

  • AAFP calls on health plans to align their physician measurement and reporting activities with AAFP policy in its letter sent to over 50 health plans in June 2009. Read the letter (2-page PDF file; About PDFs).
  • AAFP continues to press health plans for transparency, use of valid data, sharing of actionable data, reasonable periods of time for report validation and reconsideration processes, and attention to family medicine practices' capacities for additional patients.
  • AAFP endorses the Patient Charter for Physician Performance Measurement, Reporting and Tiering Programs that was launched under the auspices of the Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project. Read more in AAFP News Now (April 2, 2008).

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