Opinion: Fiscal Cliff Bill Has ‘Crucial’ Health Care Benefit
In a Bloomberg opinion piece, economist Peter Orszag -- vice chair of corporate investment banking at Citigroup and former director of the Office of Management and Budget -- writes that recent legislation (HR 8) to avert the fiscal cliff includes a "little-noted" provision that provides an incentive for physicians to use clinical data registries. Orszag argues that such registries can be "crucial to evaluating what medical techniques and strategies work and which ones don't."
- "Smart Health Care Strategy Hidden in 'Cliff' Deal" (Orszag, Bloomberg, 1/8).