Medscape August 29, 2024
A new JAMA Health Forum analysis suggests one reason doctors are wary of value-based care arrangements: Overkill.
Researchers found that primary care physicians in one large integrated health system were required to track an average of 57 different quality measures across multiple insurers that linked outcomes to payments under value-based contracts.
Medicare contracts were the most likely to pile quality measures on physicians with an average of 13.42 measures vs 10.07 for commercial insurer contracts and 5.37 for Medicaid contracts, reported Claire Boone, PhD, of the University of Chicago, Chicago, and Providence Research Network, Portland, Oregon, and colleagues in JAMA Health Forum. The analysis, which may be the first of its kind, tracked 890 primary care physicians from 2020 to...
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