I think that the private insurers will certainly look towards the use of quality metrics as a means to evaluate us and (more importantly) to control costs. I would be surprised and sorely disappointed if they used MU as their basis for this, though the basic idea of identifying measures and using an EMR to document them does make sense. Either way, does it make sense for us to spend years trying to wrap our minds around the ever-shifting, rather opaque MU rules because MAYBE some insurance company will try to copy them? My answer is no, but others may disagree.
I doubt that Aetna will pay us more to document the race and language preference of our patients.
