Could CMS start physician profiling in the near future?

Contemporary OB/GYN
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could start a program to compare physicians' volume and intensity of services against one another as early as the middle of 2008, according to the Government Accountability Office. Proponents of resource use comparison—also known as physician profiling—claim that the collected data could help individual doctors and groups to see how they stack up against their colleagues when treating a particular patient condition. This knowledge, in turn, could spur physicians to shift their treatment practices—whether it's providing more services for a patient population or reducing services—to match their peers