HealthLeaders Media November 28, 2017
Study finds the Value-Based Payment Modifier program that ran from 2013 to 2016 failed to deliver on its central promise to increase value of care for patients, and may have made things worse.
Medicare’s Value-Based Payment Modifier program inadvertently shifted money away from physicians who treated sicker, poorer patients to pay for bonuses that rewarded practices treating richer, healthier populations, according to a study this week in Annals of Internal Medicine.
In addition, components from that failed pay-for-performance prototype that do not account for patient demographics remain its successor program, and could scuttle its chances for success, researchers said.
“As long as these programs do not account adequately for patient differences, which is very difficult to do, they will further...
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