Physicians pioneering quality improvement

Improving the quality of health care is a critically important challenge facing our nation's health care system. A number of health care quality issues (including serious gaps and disparities in care) and the steady increase in health care costs have led to an intensified demand for ways to measure and improve the quality of care provided by physicians.

Help stop the Medicare cuts

Time is getting short. Without congressional action, Medicare physician payments will be slashed 10 percent on Jan. 1. Worse, this year's Medicare Trustees report predicts that cuts will total about 40 percent by 2016.