Many physicians are unhappy that they will be subject to penalties under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act for patient outcomes beyond their control.
Indeed, doctors who responded to a recent Medscape article about best practices to deal with patients who don’t comply with medical advice argued that it’s not their fault when patients fail to heed their recommendations.
“How is it my fault if my patient who has heart failure decides not to take his meds and eats pizza and hamburgers every day, or if my patient with five stents doesn’t want to take statins and Plavix and continues to smoke?”
