United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Health, Education, and Human Services Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-07-27 monographic deposited born digital GA 1.13:T-HEHS-95-224 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-95-224 P0b002ee1803750e5 f:the95224 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-95-224 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-95-224 T-HEHS-95-224 Quality assurance Medicare programs Health maintenance organizations Beneficiaries Health services administration Health care cost control Surveys Physicians Medicare Peer Review Program Medicare Provider Certification Program Florida Testimony HEHS As efforts to contain health care costs have intensified in recent years, more attention has been paid to the quality of that care. Corporate purchasers of health care are concerned about problems that may arise from restricting patients' choice of providers or from giving providers financial incentives that encourage them to withhold or limit needed care, or, conversely, might encourage them to overtreat. By evaluating both cost and quality, these purchasers believe that they can select the plan that provides the best value. This testimony discusses (1) what the Health Care Financing Administration is doing to ensure that Medicare providers furnish quality care in both fee-for-service and managed care deliver systems and (2) experts' views on essential quality assurance components. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-95-224/html/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-95-224.htm GAO/T-HEHS-95-224 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-95-224 Testimony GAO/T-HEHS-95-224; Medicare: Enhancing Health Care Quality Assurance; Quality assurance Medicare programs Health maintenance organizations Beneficiaries Health services administration Health care cost control Surveys Physicians Medicare Peer Review Program Medicare Provider Certification Program Florida