SERMO — a physician social network — surveyed nearly 1,500 physicians and asked the following question: “Nonprofit news organization ProPublica released a scorecard for surgeons in July that compares doctors on complication rates for a variety of common procedures of Medicare patients. If there were scorecards for your specialty, would it affect your decision to take (or not take) Medicare patients?”
Ultimately, more than half (59 percent) of the physicians surveyed said the scorecards would affect their decision to take on Medicare patients.
Although the poll results were not made publicly available, the results were verified by SERMO sources, according to Forbes.
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