Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

If You Think Your PCP Is A Big Enough Nag Already . . .

. . . just wait until he or she is eligible to receive performance bonuses from the Department of Health:

And echoing the city’s cash-incentive experiments in the school system, the health department will soon start offering doctors bonuses of perhaps $100 for each patient who hits specified targets like controlling blood pressure or cholesterol, up to $20,000 for each doctor.

And then they’ll really start pimping out those statin drugs!