New York agreement refines doctor-rating criteria
November 12th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
An agreement that was struck between a health plan and regulators in New York won’t stop insurers’ use of physician rankings, but it might make them more acceptable to doctors.
Cigna and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office on Oct. 29 struck an agreement that requires the insurer to submit to the state the rating criteria it plans to use to place doctors in tiered networks, in which members pay a lower co-pay or otherwise get discounts for seeing favored physicians. Cigna is one of many health plans that have received letters from Cuomo’s office stating that its physician-rankings plan might be misleading to consumers because, in part, it appeared to focus on cost more than quality.
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