Becker's Healthcare July 19, 2017
Mackenzie Bean

The National Quality Forum conducted a two-year trial demonstrating the feasibility of incorporating social risk factors into healthcare performance measures.

Normally, NQF only allows measures to be adjusted for clinical factors present at the start of a patient’s care. During the two-year trial period, the forum temporarily changed this policy to allow risk adjustment for social factors like education, income and language.

NQF examined 303 performance measures across 16 areas, including all those submitted for review from April 2015 to April 2017. Of the reviewed measures, 93 included some form of risk adjustment, 65 had a conceptual basis for risk adjustment and 17 were endorsed with social risk adjustment.

The trial found incorporating...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), Health System / Hospital, Market Research, Medicaid, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Value Based
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