MedPage Today February 6, 2018
AMA, Commonwealth Fund leaders debate how to reform value-based care at policy conference.
WASHINGTON — Reducing measurement, scrapping MIPS and crafting regional metrics were a few of the solutions proposed by experts to improve value-based care at a policy conference here Monday afternoon.
David Blumenthal, MD, president of The Commonwealth Fund and a former Obama administration official, joined J. Michael McWilliams, MD, and Kathleen Blake, MD, on the AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference panel “Advancing Value: Next Steps on Quality Measurement.” They debated how to reform a system that has infuriated many in the medical community.
“There’s increasing disillusionment with pay-for-performance,” Blumenthal said. “Its benefits do not seem to justify its side effects or its costs … Measurement is not...
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