Health Affairs September 20, 2017
Douglas Henley, Karen Remley, Darilyn Moyer, Adrienne White-Faines, and Saul Levin

Physicians today have a love-hate relationship with quality performance measurement. We know we need quality measures, but measurement also can add administrative complexity. We want to make sure that the measures get us to our number one goal of improving patient care.

Together, our organizations represent approximately 500,000 of the nation’s more than 800,000 practicing physicians. While each organization has a different clinical focus: family medicine, pediatrics, osteopathic medicine, internal medicine and psychiatry, we are united in our commitment to provide better, safer care for our patients.

Quality measures are the tools we use across the health care system to assess physician performance and improve the care our patients receive. Increasingly over the past decade, health care payers in both...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, MACRA, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Self-insured, Value Based
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