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- Prohibit physician incentives to overtreat or undertreat patients.
- Capitation has a tendency to undertreat the patient,
- The doctors were paid salaries, eliminating any economic reason to undertreat or overtreat patients.
- The Harvard centers also plan to confront the prevalent consumer fear that doctors may undertreat patients when they're financially at risk.
- That way HMOs that pay physicians a salary _ which gives them no financial incentive to undertreat or overtreat patients _ could advertise that fact.
- The data on gender differences have important implications for treatment, especially the growing evidence that doctors tend to ignore or undertreat pain in women.
- Allen said he does not oppose all managed care, but added, " There should not be an economic incentive to undertreat ."
- "Capitation has a tendency to undertreat the patient, " said Cohen of Sylmar in L . A .'s San Fernando Valley.
- But capitation's flip side is that it pays for doctors to undertreat, because the fewer times a patient visits, the more of the reserve that doctors end up with.
- Whatever the reason, Dr . Foley and other experts in end-of-life care have long complained that their colleagues underestimate and undertreat pain and that patients'quality of life could be vastly improved if doctors paid attention to this problem.
- "There's a substantial portion who we either undertreat or overtreat because we don't have adequate information on who will recur, " said Dr . Gary H . Lyman of the University of Rochester, who has reviewed 10 such experimental tests.
- The Commonworks plan, which goes to bid Feb . 12, may presage a nationwide shift toward managed care by agencies like DSS . But critics warn that the new system offers strong incentives to undertreat wards of the state whose parents are unavailable to advocate on their behalf.