Managed Healthcare Executive August 23, 2024
Peter Wehrwein, Managing Editor

Research published today in JAMA Health Forum Shows primary care physicians faced an average of 57 quality measures. The authors argue that many may interfere with care improvement and contribute to physician burnout.

Primary care physicians faced an average of 57 unique quality measures across more than seven contracts, an overload that undercuts value-based care, according to a research letter published today in JAMA Health Forum.

“Value-based contracting is intended to incentivize care improvement, but it is unlikely a clinician or practice can reasonably optimize against 50 or more measures at a time,” wrote Claire Boone, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Value-based contracts had an average of 10.24 quality measures, Boone and...

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Topics: Payment Models, Primary care, Provider, Survey / Study, Trends, Value Based
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