Insurance company UnitedHealthcare
wanted to implement a system that ranks New York doctors by quality of care and cost of service. The State Attorney General's Office asked them not to.
Mary Jo Feldstein, health care reporter for the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, talks about what happened when the insurer tried to introduce a similar ranking system in Missouri. And
Debra Draper, associate director of the
Center for Studying Health System Change, talks about what insurance companies want to do with these rankings--and how they might impact consumers.