H&HN September 19, 2017
Data management is key to meeting MACRA requirements
Value-based payment approaches, including Medicare’s Quality Payment Program for physicians and other eligible clinicians, tie fees and bonuses to how well providers perform on various quality and cost measures. An underlying assumption of value-based payment is that quality of care can be easily measured and reported. In reality, however, performance measurement is still evolving.
A major challenge is the sheer number of metrics being tracked, which often add up to hundreds for hospitals and health systems. Clinicians can sometimes complain that all the data collection is “busy work” and question how some metrics benefit their patients. A 2014 study found that physician practices spend 15.1 hours per week tracking quality metrics...
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