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Texas Blues plan agrees to stop grading physicians on how much they charge
American Medical News , 04/28/09
Berry E - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has pushed the state's Blues plan to abandon a cost-based physician rating program that doctors argued amounted to economic credentialing. The agreement is the latest of many involving large health plans rating doctors based on cost but casting that score as a quality measure, a practice the AMA has fought for years.
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