63% of Physicians Say ACOs Will Have Negative Impact on Care

Sixty-three percent of physicians surveyed in a new AthenaHealth-Sermo report say they believe the shift to accountable care organizations will have a negative impact on quality of care. More than half of the physicians surveyed believe quality of care will decrease over the next five years.

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Other findings from the report, which asked 500 physicians questions on topics ranging from government regulation to electronic health records to quality of care to compliance issues, include:

  • 53 percent of the physicians see the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as detrimental to high-quality care;
  • 42 percent are confident the transition to ICD-10 will be smooth;
  • 73 percent say EHRs are a distraction to interacting with the patient;
  • 89 percent say payors have become more intrusive on the patient-physician relationship.

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