Healthcare DIVE January 11, 2019
Dive Brief:
- Value-based care and other healthcare quality initiatives have made inroads, with an estimated 4% annual growth in value-based payments and 7% average annual increase in hospitals and clinicians participating in major clinical registries, a new Q-Centrix report shows.
- The consultancy’s report looks at participation in quality programs and resource needs in three key quality reporting areas: regulatory, infection prevention and clinical registries.
- The report estimates value-based payments make up about 22% of all care delivery payments as of the start of this year, up from 18% at the beginning of 2018. Meanwhile, the share of hospitals submitting data to the top 20 inpatient clinical registries is expected to climb from 18,432 in 2017 to 23,773 in...