Wisconsin congressional members want physicians rated on quality of care

Guy Boulton of the Journal Sentinel reports: "The government's unprecedented release of information about Medicare payments to doctors last week drew national attention, particularly spotlighting individual physicians who collected millions of dollars for treating Medicare patients in 2012...But the information, which disclosed the total amounts of Medicare payments made to more than 880,000 physicians and other health care providers, did not include the detail needed to determine what really matters: Which doctors provide high-quality care in the most cost-effective way?" (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 4/15)