Health Affairs July 5, 2023
Quality Measurement Dilemma
While value-based purchasing (VBP) programs have proliferated in the past two decades, quality measures have become increasingly important as they are employed to calculate the “value” of care. The health care industry, however, is struggling with a quality measurement dilemma. On the one hand, as the number of measures is increasing rapidly, health care organizations—both payers and providers—are investing significant resources and time in data collection and reporting of measure results. One recent study reported that a single hospital spent more than $5 million, along with an additional expenditure of more than half a million dollars in vendor fees, for the preparation and report of 162 unique quality metrics in a single calendar year. On the other...
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