Healthcare Finance News April 19, 2018
Doctors have balked at the increasing burden of implementing metrics, which cost roughly $15.4 billion annually to meet.
Researchers are calling for a re-examination of the use of costly performance measures for physicians after finding that less than 40 percent of these metrics are valid.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that only 37 percent of quality measures the group assessed met a list of criteria for validity devised by the American College of Physicians. Of the rest, 35 percent were deemed invalid while for the remaining 28 percent, the validity was found to be uncertain.
“The fact that only 37 percent of measures proposed for a national value-based purchasing program were found to be...
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